Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; man wearing a tall pointed hat; man with a hawk on his wreath; hunter on foot with a spear; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Westwood 1876: French (?), 14th century.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of 14th century.
Robinson 2008: French (Paris), about 1325-1375.
Museum's opinion 2011: French (Paris), c. 1325-1375.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for the (missing) mirror. Modern ink inscription: 'W .M' (for William Maskell) and '144'.
Object Condition
Features slightly worn.
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890) (no. 144); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 854 ('58.209).
R. Koechlin, Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, ed. by A. Michel, II (Paris, 1906), p. 493.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 377.
O. Pelka, Elfenbein (Berlin, 1920), p. 208.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 385; II, no. 1026.
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), p. 50, fig. 25.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 236.
J. Robinson, Masterpieces of Medieval Art (London, 2008), p. 206.
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