Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a chaplet (gift of a chaplet); tree; castles.
Foliated corner terminals. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Dalton 1909: France, late 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.
Egbert 1929: Italy, early 15th century.
Randall 1985: Northern Italy, c. 1390-1400.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern Italy, end of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Turned with a depression for the (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the male figure's face, foliage on three corner terminals.
Comments
Probably by the same hand as Walters Art Gallery, 71.269 (Randall 1985).
Provenance
Collection of Major Rhode Hawkins (b. 1821, d. 1884); British Museum, purchased through Christie's, 1885.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 384, Pl. XC.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 411; II, no. 1115.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 203-204, fig. 67].
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), in relation to no. 345.
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