Meeting of lovers (courting couple); youth kneeling before a lady; lady chucking her lover under the chin.
Foliated decoration (oak leaves?); capital.
Lawrence 1969: French, 14th century.
Ann Arbor 1975: Italian (?), 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Italian (?), probably 19th century in a 14th century style.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome (sold 1909). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913). Anonymous gift in memory of the late J. Pierpont Morgan in 1918.
Bibliography
The Waning Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, Kansas City, The University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1969, pp. 68-69, no. 80, pl. IV.
Images of Love and Death in Renaissance and Late Medieval Art, exhibition catalogue, ed. by W. R. Levin, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, November 1975-January 1976, no. 77, pl. VIII.
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