Cl. XVII n. 5
Castle of Love; courting couples (meeting of lovers); couple embracing on the battlements; female musician playing the rebec; female musician playing the psaltery; youth with a hawk on his wrist; staircase; lady holding a key at the gate; youth chucking his lover under the chin; offering of a flower; couple making a wreath.
Lazari 1859: 2nd half of the 13th century or early 14th century.
Venice 1988: French?, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French (?), late 13th century or early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back pasted onto a wooden panel.
Object Condition
Missing: edge broken in places; upper part with central couple (repaired)
Provenance
Collection of Teodoro Correr, Venice (at least from c. 1800; manuscript inventory evidence): given by him in 1830.
Bibliography
V. Lazari, Notizia delle opere d'arte e d'antichità della Raccolta Correr di Venezia (Venice, 1859), no. 731.
Elenco degli oggetti esposti. Museo Civico e Raccolta Correr Venezia (Venice, 1899), p. 212, pl. XIII, no. 574.
G. Mariacher, Arte a Venezia dal medioevo al Settecento. Testimonianze e recuperi, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Museo Correr, 1971, pp. 268-269.
G. Mariacher, 'Gli avori del Museo Correr di Venezia', in Rassegna dell'Istruzione artistica', II-4 (1967), pp. 33-48 (pp. 35-36).
Una Città e il suo museo. Un secolo e mezzo di collezioni civiche veneziane, ed. by G. Romanelli, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Museo Correr, 1988, p. 80, no. I.126.
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