Lady and youth on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady with a hawk on her wrist; fashionable dress; trees.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid-14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, middle or 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
No trace of gilding or polychromy (see unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1995).
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax. Labelled: 'A. 55', 'Chefs d'oeuvre / de l'Art français / 1937 / Louvre / 93'. In pencil: 'no. 93', 'Sauvageot / no. 93 / OA 112'.
Object Condition
Small chips around the edges.
Small inscription on the lower part: 'XIVe'.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 284); given to the Museum by A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856; exhibited at the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée Cluny, Paris, from 1948 to 1977; at the Musée du Louvre since 1986.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 284.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 55.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 446 ('55.46).
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 93.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 437; II, no. 1193.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 100.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Les tablettes à écrire d'ivoire au Moyen Âge', in Métiers d'art 54-55, (December 1994-March 1995), pp. 17-20 (p. 17, with fig.).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 178.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 590-1, in relation to no.177.
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