Inv. 21.11
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple playing chess; man with his left hand around the pole supporting the tent; youth or lady with a hawk on his wrist; youth or lady holding a chaplet.
Corner terminals: four crouching hybrids.
Glasgow 1988: French (Paris?), 19th century.
Glasgow Museums' opinion 2013: 2nd half of the 19th century or early 20th century, in a French 14th-century style.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Darker vertical strip down the middle of the piece.
Provenance
Bought by Sir William Burrell from Mr John Hunt, Dublin, 16 October 1947 for £120; given to the City of Glasgow by Sir William and Constance, Lady Burrell, in 1944.
Bibliography
The Burrell Collection : medieval tapestries, sculpture, stained glass with paintings, alabasters, ivories and metalwork, exhibition catalogue, 1977, no. 377.
Rarer Gifts than Gold: Fourteenth-Century Art in Scottish Collections, exhibition catalogue, Glasgow, Burrell Collection, 28 April-26 June 1988, no. 13, p. 20.
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