Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; female attendant; castle; battlements.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Molinier 1904: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, c. 1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Numerous labels with inscriptions: 'M. Oppenheim', 'o. 138', '1024', '3034' and 'P. M. 1534 A'.
Comments
The other half of this mirror case is probably Koechlin 1072, also in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (17.190.246).
Provenance
Collection of Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne: sale 1906; collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 157 (?).
E. Molinier, Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim, tableaux et objets d'art (Paris, 1904), p. 33, no. 75.
R. Koechlin, 'Le Dieu d'Amour', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 (1921), p. 279.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 367, 384; II, no. 1030.
Songs of Glory, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985, no. 86, pp. 243-244.
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