Inv. F 52
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); seated couple; youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady crowning her lover with a chaplet; lady holding a dog; trees.
Darcel and Basilewski 1874: France, 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Edges on the back have been filed or thinned.
Object Condition
Missing: corner terminals.
Back levelled. Small cracks.
Comments
This piece is carved in low relief.
Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, since 1874; acquired by the Hermitage in 1885.
Bibliography
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 105.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 409.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), p. 29.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, in relation to no. 992.
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 27.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, 'Kostianoi larets XIV veka i rodstvennye emu pamiatniki v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha', in Kul'tura i iskusstvo zapadnoevropeiskogo srednevekov'ia: materialy nauchnoi konferentsii (Moscow, 1981), p. 288.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 121.
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