Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Romance.

Repository Institution
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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88259047 (EE270)

Ivory

Height: 70mm
Width: 45mm
Depth: 4mm

Pyramus and Thisbe
Register 1: Pyramus observes Thisbe through a crack in the wall. Thisbe and the lion.
Register 2: Thisbe finds refuge from the lion in a tree; the lion bites Thisbe's veil; Pyramus kills the lion, thinking it has killed Thisbe.
Border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 1212

Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2009: French (Paris), mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Four holes and three long incisions alongside the left edge.
White and blue label with the inscription: 'Collection Wernher no. 270'.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 436, 439, 503; II, no. 1212.

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