Cl. 401
Register 1: Winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers; courting couples; youth chucking his lover under the chin; couple embracing.
Register 2: courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady chucking her lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a chaplet; trees.
Animal heads (including dog) and hybrids in the spandrels.
Corner terminals: four crouching hybrids.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum online catalogue (2010): Paris, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: part of the upper right and lower left corner terminals.
Comments
A copy of this piece exists in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid (Inv. 1498).
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.
Bibliography
Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique, ou Recueil général de médailles, monnaies, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs tant anciens que modernes... gravés par les procédés de M. Achille Collas, ed. by P. Delaroche, vols. XIX-XX: Recueil général de bas-reliefs et d'ornemens ou mélanges typoglyptiques. Ivoires, meubles, armes, bijoux (Paris, 1836), pl. XXXIX, no. 1.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 847 ('58.207).
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1070.
A. Schultz, Das höfische Leben, I (Leipzig, 1889), p. 233.
R. Koechlin, 'Le Dieu d'Amour', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 (1921), p. 284.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 401-402; II, no. 1079; III, pl. CLXXXIV.
P. Chihaia, Immortalité et décomposition dans l'art du Moyen Age (Madrid, 1988), p. 168, fig. 28.
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