Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple making a wreath by a flowery bush; youth kneeling before his lover; offering of a flower. Seated youth with a hawk on his wrist; seated lady holding a dog; youth chucking his lover under the chin; bench.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Griggs 1904-1907: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (probably Paris), c. 1320-40.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth, chamfered on three sides to accommodate other panels of the casket. Traces of glue remain on the lower part. Pencil inscription: '132'.
Object Condition
Chipped on left side and top right corner. Holes for the missing fittings.
Comments
This panel probably comes from the same casket as 245-1867, also in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See related objects.
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no.132.
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 9.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), no. 244, 246-247, p. 95.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 466 (`73.172).
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], fasc. XXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479; II, no. 1277.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 52, pl. XLVIII.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 94, in relation to no. 15.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 228.
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