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Lid (fragment of a casket), 1 register (coffret) (Front)

Lid (fragment of a casket), 1 register (coffret) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Romance.

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

1997.6

Ivory

Height: 128mm
Width: 243mm

Scene 1: Elopement (variation on Attack on the Castle of Love); lovers on a horse; couples watching from the castle battlements; offering of a chaplet (gift of a chaplet); offering of a flower; bridge; couple and youth in a boat; knight chucking his lover under the chin.
Scene 2: Tournament; ladies (including a queen with a dog) and youths observing the jousting knights in armour from a balcony; youth with a hawk on his wrist; embracing couples; two youths blowing trumpets; horses.
Scene 3: Attack on the Castle of Love; couples watching from the castle battlements; catapult throwing flowers; knights in armour assaulting the castle; ladies throwing flowers from the battlements; knight climbing a ladder.


Koechlin Number: 1292

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Darr and Albainy, 2000: French (Paris), c. 1340-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Holes for missing fittings.
Missing: upper left corner including the couple on the battlements (later restoration).

Provenance
Francis Douce (1757-1834), London: by bequest, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848), Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, England; by descent, Lt. Col. Augustus Meyrick. D. J. J. Escanciano, Spain (by 1892). Michel Manzi, Paris (Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris): his sale, Paris, Galerie Manzi, Joyant & Cie, 15-16 December 1919, lot 47. Dagues Collection, Paris. Alain Moatti (dealer), Paris. Bought in 1997 by the Institute from Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III Fund, Benson Ford Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Fund for Medieval Art, Paul Zuckerman Fund, David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation, with funds from Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman, and Margaret H. Demant in honour of Peter Barnet).

Bibliography
S. R. Meyrick, 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Doucean Museum, now at Goodrich Court - Carvings', in The Gentleman's Magazine 159 (April 1836), p. 383, no. 11.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), appendix, pp. 176-177, no. 7.
Las Joyas de la Exposición Histórico-Europea, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, 1892-1893, pl. LXXXVII (mirror image).
G. Migeon, Exposition rétrospective de l'art français (Paris, 1900).
L. Williams, The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, 3 vols (London and Edinburgh, 1907), II, p. 106 (mirror image). Accessible online via Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/artscraftsofolde02will [accessed December 2012].
A. Alexandre, 'La Collection Manzi', in Les Arts 187 (1919), p. 22.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 489, 490; II, no. 1292.
O. Beigbeder, 'Un miroir précieux du Moyen Age: Les coffrets d'ivoire', in Plaisir de France 37, no. 381 (Sept. 1970), p. 25.
'Informations', in Plaisir de France 39, no. 396 (1972), p. 63.
Musée du Louvre, Nouvelles acquisitions 1980-1984 (Paris, 1985), p. 35, fig. 6e.
'La Chronique des Arts: Principales acquisitions des musées en 1997', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 131 (1998), p. 41 (with ill.).
A. Darr and T. Albainy, 'Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999', in The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000), p. 405, no. I (with ill.).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 227.


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