Aristotle teaching Alexander; tent. Phyllis riding Aristotle, Alexander watching from the castle battlements. Pyramus and Thisbe; Thisbe and the lion; Thisbe finds refuge from the lion in a tree; lion with a piece of Thisbe's veil in its mouth. Death of Pyramus and Thisbe; fountain.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 1st half of the 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Recessed along three edges to accommodate other panels.
Printed label: '495'. Label with pencil inscription: '293/6'. Engraved 'L'.
Object Condition
Holes for lost fittings.
Comments
This is a 19th century panel which was made to replace the front panel of a casket in the Metropolitan Museum (17.190.173). This panel helped prove that 1988.16 was the original front panel for this casket.
Provenance
Collection of Sir John Warde of Squerryes, Surrey (1858); Collection of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (b. 1783, d. 1848). Weidenhaupt collection, Aix-la-Chapelle. Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
L. Lersh, 'Die Irrungen der Liebe', in Jahrbuch Vereins der Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinland (1847), p. 123, pl. V and VI.
J. B. Waring, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom: Consisting of Examples Selected from the Manchester Treasures Exhibition, 1857 (London, 1858), pl. 4.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), Appendix, p. 177.
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 45, pl. XXXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 487, 501; II, no. 1297.
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