Inv. 869/361
Register 1: ladies playing chess; kneeling youth with a hawk on his wrist; kneeling youth feeding a hawk; gloves.
Register 2: hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; lady wearing a hat with a pointed brim; lady with a whip; youth with a hawk on his wrist; hunter with a spear; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Natanson 1951: France, c. 1320-1340.
Santi 1969: France, early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, c. 1300-1320.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. End of the pulp cavity visible at the top of the piece.
Provenance
Acquired before 1886 (mentioned in the 1886-1890 inventory) by the Musei Civici, Perugia; passed into the collection of the Galleria Nazionale before 1919.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 378.
U. Gnoli, 'Avori francesi nella Galleria Nazionale di Perugia', in Bolletino d'arte 13 (1919), p. 111.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 388; II, no. 1056.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), p. 37, fig. 44.
F. Santi, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. Dipinti, sculture e oggetti d'arte di età romanica e gotica (Rome, 1969), no. 123.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, p. 97 (with fig.).
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