Cl. 376
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); seated couple; lady holding a dog; youth with a hawk; decorated capital; tree.
Du Sommerard 1883: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Bencard 1975: France (Paris?), 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: lower end; right hand of the youth; upper part of the tree. Cracks.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the Museum in 1843.
Bibliography
F. Séré and P. Lacroix, Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance, 5 vols, (Paris, 1848-1861), II (1849), pl. V.
E. Viollet-Le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque Carolingienne à la Renaissance (1871), II, p. 174.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1068.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 418; II, no. 1131.
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 19.
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