Inv. 71.281
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a rose (gift of the rose); tree; castle; lady holding the rose.
Crosshatched background. Masks in the spandrels.
Foliated corner terminals.
Koechlin 1924: French, 15th century.
Lawrence 1969: France, early 15th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: North Italian (Lombardy or Milan), 1390-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with 10 concentric depressions, for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Two later holes.
Comments
The attitude is that of conventional Italian wedding portrayal of the 15th century (Randall 1985).
Provenance
Collection of Caspar and Stephan Bourgeois, art dealers, Cologne: sold, Lempertz, Cologne, 19-27 October 1904, lot 1082. Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris (sometime before 1924). Bought by Henry Walters from Henry Daguerre in Paris in 1925; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 411, II, no. 1114, III, pl. CLXXXVII.
The Waning Middle Ages, ed. by J. L. Schrader, exhibition catalogue, Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1969, no. 84, pl. VIII.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 347.
L. F. Hodges, Chaucer and Costume: The Secular Pilgrims in the General Prologue (Cambridge, 2000), p. 56, fig. 5.
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