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Panel (fragment of a casket: lid), 1 register (coffret) (Back)

Panel (fragment of a casket: lid), 1 register (coffret) (Back)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. 420a

Ivory

Height: 112mm
Width: 221.5mm (max)

Knight kneeling before a lady who places a helm over his head; herald in a tree blowing a trumpet. Tournament; ladies and youths (including a king) observing the jousting knights in armour from the castle battlements; lady holding a dog; trees; flowers; horses; shields. Knight kneeling before a lady who places a helm over his head; herald in a tree blowing a trumpet.


Koechlin Number: 1289

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Ross 1948: France, 14th century.
Stuttmann 1966: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Martini and Rizzardi 1990: Northern France (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (green).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Remains of a label. Pencil inscription: '14.'

Object Condition
Horizontal break across the centre of the panel. Holes for missing fittings, with traces of rust.
Missing: the upper right part of the panel and upper left corner. All edges partly broken.

Comments
This piece is part of the same casket as Inv. 420b, also in Hannover.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover (no. 462); acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
H. Graeven, Führer durch das Kestner-Museum (Hannover, 1904), nos. 12, 13.
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 158, fig. 56, p. 7, no. 12.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 380, 483, 488, 507; II, no. 1289; III, pl. CCXXI.
A. McLaren Young, 'A French Medieval Ivory Casket at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts', in The Connoisseur, CXX (1947), pp. 16-21 (p. 18).
D. J. A. Ross, 'Allegory and Romance on a Mediaeval French Marriage Casket', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948), pp. 112-142 (pp. 115, 138, pl. 28a).
I. Woldering, Meisterwerke des Kestner-Museums zu Hannover (Bad Honnef, 1961), p. 37, pl. 146, p. 33, fig. 82.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I : Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), no. 124, fig. on p. 192.
Codex Manesse: Ausstellung der Universität Heidelberg, exhibition catalogue, Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Library, 12 June - 2 October 1988, no. 12, fig. 296.
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), pp. 88, 120, fig. 44.
Der sassen speyghel: Sachsenspiegel, Recht, Alltag. Papers and exhibition catalogue for Aus dem Leben gegriffen - Ein Rechtsbuch spiegelt seine Zeit, Oldenburg, Landesbibliothek Oldenburg and Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, 15 January - 2 April 1995, p. 586, fig. 22.
Die Kunst des Mittelalters in Hamburg. Die Burgen, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, Helms-Museum, 1999, p. 51, fig. 5.


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