Attack on the Castle of Love; ladies defending the Castle of Love; ladies throwing flowers from the battlements; swords; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady holding a chaplet; youth with a hawk on his wrist; knights in armour assaulting the castle; knight climbing a ladder; knights on horseback fighting with swords before the castle.
Masks in spandrels.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Dalton 1909: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Turned with a depression for the (missing) mirror. Three short vertical lines inscribed along the top rim.Ink inscription: '22'.
Object Condition
Some cracks. Missing: four monsters (replaced with modern restorations).
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890)(no. 22): bought from him by the British Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique, ou Recueil général de médailles, monnaies, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs tant anciens que modernes... gravés par les procédés de M. Achille Collas, ed. by P. Delaroche, vols. XIX-XX: Recueil général de bas-reliefs et d'ornemens ou mélanges typoglyptiques. Ivoires, meubles, armes, bijoux (Paris, 1836), pl. XXXIX, no. 3 (mistakenly stating it as the property of Sauvageot).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), 382.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 406, 407; II, no. 1087.
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