Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth and lady conversing, watched by a wild man and a wild woman who hide behind a tree; dagger.
Dalton 1909: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 14th century.
Randall 1989: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French (Northern?), late 14th century.
Attribution
Atelier of the Boxes (Randall 1989)
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Object Condition
Pierced with a hole above the middle arch of canopy.
Provenance
Collection of Miss Elizabeth Doubleday; British Museum, by purchase, 1856.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 364, pl. LXXXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 443; II, no. 1207.
R. H. Randall, 'Medieval Ivories in the Romance tradition', in Gesta, 28 (1989), pp. 30-40, fig. 4.
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