Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple conversing.
Foliated decoration in the spandrels; twisted columns.
Egbert 1929: Italy (Venice).
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (North), 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Flat with scoring.Label with printed inscription: '3099'. In pencil: '3'.
Object Condition
Pierced by a hole through upper border, possibly for suspension. Hole in the lower right corner.
Comments
This panel probably once decorated the sides of a casket, together with two pieces of identical size and matching iconography in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 17.190.260 and 261). See related objects.
Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929) p. 178, n. 3.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 232.
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