Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right arm of the knight.
The left leg of the horse is cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
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R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 470; II, no. 1257.
H. T. Bossert, Geschichte des Kunstgewerbes aller Zeiten und Völker (Berlin, 1928-1935), V, p. 478.
Chess: East and West, Past and Present. A selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968, no. 7.
H. Nickel, 'Sir Gawayne and the Three White Knights', in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 28 (December 1969), pp. 174-182 (pp. 174-175, fig. 1).
Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, 28 April-2 July 1972, no. 68b.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 18.
W. D. Wixom, 'A Late Thirteenth-Century English Ivory Virgin', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 50, no. 3 (1987), p. 352, n. 30, fig. 9.
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