Inv. F 2317
Four compartments formed by the branches of a tree.
Meeting of lovers (courting couples); youth kneeling before a lady; lady holding a chaplet. lady holding a dog; youth kneeling before a lady. Youth kneeling before a lady; offering of the heart (?). Couple conversing.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Hole in each upper corner terminals. Discolouration. Worn.
Deep cracks in the centre filled with mastic.
Provenance
Collection of the Counts Shuvalov, Saint Petersburg; collection of the Shuvalov House Museum, Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]; acquired in 1924.
Bibliography
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 101.
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 17.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 107.
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