Jousting knight on horseback; knight in armour; men fighting with swords and shields; foliated scrolls (rinceaux); lion; dagger; rabbits; trees.
Museum's opinion 2012: Spain (?), late 19th-early 20th century, in a 14th century style.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Smooth with rounded edges.
Pencil inscription: '227.
Object Condition
Four holes, two with nails.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Imbert, Rome: sold, 1910; 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
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (New York, 1929), 2nd ed., p. 110.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 448, fig. 198a, in relation to no. 198.
M. Verő, 'Bemerkungen zu den beinsätteln aus der Sigismundzeit', in Sigismundus rex et imperator: Kunst und Kultur zur Zeit Sigismunds von Luxemburg 1387-1437, exhibition catalogue, Budapest and Luxemburg, 2006, pp. 270-278 (p. 278, no. 26.III).
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