Courting couples (meeting of lovers); couple conversing; offering of the heart; tree.
Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: North Italian, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Label: '432a' and pencil inscription: 'PM 1381'.
Object Condition
Missing: vertical piece on the right hand side.
Vertical cracks.
Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 411; II, no. 1112.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 139.
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