Hawking scene; youth on horseback with a hawk on his wrist; male attendant on foot holding a stick; dog; seated lady with a hawk on her wrist; hunter on foot carrying a hare on a pole; lady on horseback holding a distaff (?) or lure for hawks; trees.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1320-40.
Attribution
Atelier of the Cracow casket (Gaborit-Chopin 2003)
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: green staining (trees), gold (hare and hair of the hunter carrying it).
Reverse
Flat, with some scoring. Back recessed on three sides to accommodate other panels of the casket.
Paper label: '2469' (probably a Fitzhenry number) and ink inscription: 'Fitzhenry', as well as other numbers now illegible.
Object Condition
Damaged and trimmed on the left side. Missing: strip at bottom left.
Pierced with holes for metals fittings (now missing).
Comments
This panel comes from the same casket as the back panel now at the Louvre (OA 7277), see Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Williamson and Davies 2014. See related objects.
Original fleur-de-lys mounts which formed the corners of the lock.
Provenance
Collection of J. H. Fitzhenry collection, London, on loan to museum before 1913: his sale, Christe, Manson & Woods, London, 18 November 1913, lot 29; probably bought by Thomas Sutton, London and Eastbourne and sold to Mrs Ellen Hearn of Menton (France), in 1914; donated by Mrs Hearn to the museum in 1923 as part of the Alfred Williams Hearn Gift.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479; II, no. 1276bis.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), pp. 52-53, pl. XLVIII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), in relation to no. 173.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 229
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