Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a chaplet; lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth holding a pair of gloves; bird perched on the chaplet.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
No gilding or polychromy on the front. Painted on the reverse.
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Painted scene (post-medieval): cardinal before a crucifix on an altar. The back of the other panel (1978,0701.1) features a standing Virgin and Child.
Object Condition
Vertical crack through the centre. Two holes on the right side, possibly to make it form a diptych with 1978,0701.1. The painting on the reverse is worn.
Comments
The painting on the reverse originally formed part of a larger scene. Paired with the painting on the reverse of 1978,0701.1, also in the British Museum (see related object link).
Provenance
Collection of William Burges (b. 1827, d. 1881); bequest from him to the British Museum in 1881.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 359, Pl. LXXXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 436; II, no. 1190.
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