Inv. WA1947.191.223
Side 1: Fountain of Youth; old and young; cripples with crutches; couples bathing; soldier with a halberd; lady wearing a horned headdress (bourrelet); trees.
Side 2: Hunter spearing a boar; hunter on foot, holding a halberd; hunter on horseback blowing a horn; trees; running dogs.
Roped border; crosshatched background; foliated scrolls; vine border with grapes.
Warren 2014: probably France, mid-15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Broken in two pieces along a vertical line, and later repaired.
Damage on the right side (when facing the Fountain of Youth scene), repaired with new plugs of bone.
Provenance
Collection of Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, (b. 1805, d.1860), by 1857. Collection of Charles Fairfax Murray (b. 1849, d. 1919). Iden, art dealer, 1946; collection of John Francis Mallett; his bequest to the Museum in 1947.
Bibliography
F. W. Fairholt, Miscellanea graphica: representations of ancient, medieval, and renaissance remains in the possession of Lord Londesborough (London, 1857), pl. XX, fig. 1.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 215.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 182.
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