Garden of Love; courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of the heart; two angels holding a shield with a flower; hooded man; building; trees.
Roses in the spandrels.
Foliated corner terminals.
Westwood 1876: England, ca. 1375.
Dalton 1909: France, late 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century (?).
Museum's opinion 2011: France, late 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Corner terminals carved in the round. Modern ink inscriptions: 'O. W/' and '99'.
Object Condition
Cracked through shield.
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890) (no. 99?): bought from him by the British Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 843 ('58.214).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 383, Pl. XC.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 411; II, no. 1110.
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