Gothic Ivories Project | Casket with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (End, left)

Casket with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (End, left)

Casket with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (End, left)

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End, right

Body, back

Body, front

Lid

End, right

Back

End, left

Lid

Front

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.163

Ivory;metal (fittings and lock)

Height: 70mm
Width: 156mm
Depth: 90mm (casket); 6mm (max panel depth)

Lid
Courting couples (meeting of lovers); offering of a flower; couple embracing; lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; couple embracing; lady holding her belt (?); trees.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Body, front
Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; couple embracing; lady rejecting the advances of a youth (?); offering of the heart.
End, right
Couple embracing; youth with a hawk on his wrist; trees.
Body, back
Offering of a flower; hawking party; lady and youth hawking on horseback; lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth with a hawk on his wrist; hunter on foot holding a spear; offering of a chaplet.
End, left
Couple making a wreath; youth and lady plucking flowers from a tree.

Koechlin Number: 1262

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Lid heavily cracked and restored.

Provenance
Collection of Mr. Charles Mannheim, Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'La Collection de M. Piet-Lataudrie', in Les Arts (August 1909), p. 6.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 479, 480, 481; II, no. 1262.
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (New York, 1929), 2nd ed., p. 111.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 94, in relation to no. 15.

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