Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny
Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet.
Foliated capital.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot collection, Paris, no. 285: donated by him in 1856 to the Musée du Louvre. On loan since 1949 to the Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 285.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 131.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 85.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 418, 419; II, no. 1136.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 270.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 220.
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