Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady with a whip; lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; two hunters on foot with spears; dog chasing a hare; trees.
Westwood 1878: English, 14th century.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Glued decorated paper with animals, birds and foliage, dating from c. 1600.
Object Condition
The ivory is very thin and is cracked in a number of places. Part of the upper border has broken off and been replaced.
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 855 ('54.80).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 378, pl. LXXXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 384, 385; II, no. 1031.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 193.
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