Register 1: Fountain of Youth; old and young; couples bathing; trees.
Register 2: courting couples (meeting of lovers); couples embracing; youth chucking his lover under the chin.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), c. 1320-1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Two later holes in the upper part of the panel for hanging.
Comments
The panel was inserted into a piece of furniture when Koechlin wrote.
Provenance
Collection of Count Ludwig zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (before 1924, until 1870); Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, by descent; bought by the Museum in 2003.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 436, 440, 491; II, no. 1215; III, pl. CXCIX.
A. Rapp, Der Jungbrünnen in Literatur und bildender Kunst des Mittelalters (Zürich, 1976), p. 122, and fig. 6, p. 144.
'Recent Acquisitions', in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Fall 2003), p. 13 (with ill.).
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