Inv. 329
Attack on the Castle of Love; mock tournament; courting couples (meeting of lovers); ladies and the God of Love defending the Castle of Love; winged God of Love throwing arrows at lovers; two heralds in trees blowing trumpets; lady crowning a herald with a chaplet; knights in armour assaulting the castle; ladies throwing flowers from the battlements; knight with a crossbow throwing flowers; couples embracing; knight chucking his lover under the chin; ladies pouring a basket of roses on the attackers; ladies and knights on horseback, jousting with stems of flowers; portcullis; shields with flowers.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, late 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat with scoring.
Comments
This medallion is made of three different pieces of ivory glued together. It is a copy of a mirror case now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (Inv. 2003.131.1).
Provenance
Unknown provenance. In the Museo Lázaro Galdiano by 1949.
Bibliography
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 20.
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