Hawking party; courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; hunter blowing a horn; lady holding a lure for hawks; kneeling youth feeding a hawk. Crowned lady (?) and couples watching from the castle battlements; man holding a dog; running dog.
Foliated corner terminals. Masks in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris?), middle or third quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
No trace (see unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).
Reverse
Labelled: 'E U [Exposition universelle] 1900 / Doistau'.
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Screw thread on the reverse.
Two holes in the upper part.
Parts of the foliate corner terminals restored (lower-right entirely remade).
Provenance
Collection of Émile Gavet: his sale, Paris, 31 May-9 June 1897, lot 325, with ill. (mirror image). Collection of Félix Doistau, Paris; gift of Félix Doistau, 1919.
Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 182.
Les Accroissements des musées français, dir. by H. Rivière (Paris-New York, 1921), III: Le Musée du Louvre en 1920. Dons, legs et acquisitions, pl. 48.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 384; II, no. 1035, III, pl. CLXXIX.
O. Beigbeder, 'Le château d'Amour dans l'ivoirerie et son symbolisme', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1, 1951, fig. 2.
La Chasse au faucon, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de la Chasse, 1969.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 210.
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