Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth with a hawk on his wrist; hunter on horseback blowing a horn; trees.
Masks in the spandrels. Foliated corner terminals.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Lawrence 1969: France, third quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 1330-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Turned with a depression for the (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Drilled hole in each corner terminal. Two lower corner terminals partly broken.
Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1844, d. 1907), 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
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 385; II, no. 1030bis.
The Waning Middle Ages, ed. by J. L. Schrader, exhibition catalogue, Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1969, no. 79, pl. V.
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