Inv. 65008
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); Tristan and Iseult conversing; king Mark in the tree; Tristan with a hawk on his wrist; dog on Iseult's lap; fountain reflecting king Mark's face.
Foliated corner terminals.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Walworth 1995: Paris, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Missing: three corner terminals partly broken.
Provenance
Acquired before 1876.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 343.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), pl. XXVII, no. 1.
A. Rossi, 'Les Ivoires gothiques français du Vatican', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1905, I, p. 399.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 393; II, no. 1058; III, pl. CLXXXII.
J. Walworth, 'Tristan in Medieval Art', in Tristan and Isolde: a Casebook, ed. by J. T. Grimberg (New York and London, 1995), pp. 278-299 (fig. 9).
L. Lam, 'Les valves de miroir gothiques: sources littéraires et iconographie', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 74 (2011), pp. 297-310 (esp. pp. 301-302, fig. 3).
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