Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth on horseback; youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady with a whip; servant with a whip; servant with a stick.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Round metal mirror inserted (modern).
No evidence of attachment to the other case.
Modern inscription in pencil: 'no. 97', and labelled 'A. 65'.
Object Condition
Small chips on the surface.
Comments
See Gaborit-Chopin 2003, who attributes it to the same workshop as a case in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Inv. 217-1867). Pricking in the saddle and hooves may suggest that they originally had some inlaid decoration.
P. Williamson suggests the two halves may have originally formed a pair (Williamson and Davies 2014).
Provenance
Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot collection, Paris (no. 274); gift of A.-Ch. Sauvageot, 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 274.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 65.
J.O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 856 ('58.208).
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 77 (mistakenly identified as MRR 196).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 385; II, no. 1033.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 97 (mistakenly identified as MRR 196).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 128.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 191.
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