Inv. 117 C
Romance of the Châtelaine de Vergi.
Ladies dancing a carole; the Duchess compliments the Châtelaine on her skill at training dogs; two musicians blowing trumpets.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Red ink handwritten inscription only partially legible: 'Vaut 300 F d'apres [...] du prince Soltykoff'.
Object Condition
Holes for lost fittings.
Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861; Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
A. Rossi, 'La Collezione Carrand al Museo Nazionale del Bargello', in Archivio Storico dell'arte II (1889), pp. 10-23; 215-228, especially p. 17.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), no. 117, p. 234.
E. Gerspach, 'La Collection Carrand au musée national de Florence', in Les Arts, 32 (August 1904), p. 21.
A. Rossi, 'Gli avori gotici francesi di uso profano e la vita contemporanea', in Rivista d'Italia, 4 (April 1904), pp. 586-605, especially p. 599, fig. 6.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 509, 154, 283, 413, 430, 414, 461; II, no. 1306.
B. Chiesi, 'Storie scolpite in avorio: copiare, inventare, narrare. I cofanetti con la storia della Castellana di Vergy e alcuni esempi di rilievi eburnei trecenteschi nel Museo Nazionale deI BargeIlo', in Medioevo in Formazione: I giovani storici e il futuro della ricerca, dir. by G. Galeotti and M. Paperini (Florence, 2013), pp. 168-180.
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