Seated lady raising her hand; seated youth with a hawk on his wrist. Seated lady holding a dog; seated youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Architecture; elaborate tracery; pinnacles.
Griggs 1904-1907: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: probably England, end of 14th century or beginning of 15th century.
Longhurst 1929: England, end of the 14th century or beginning of the 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France, late 18th century or early 19th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (Paris), 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat and smooth, scored lines on bottom left of 284b-1867. Inscription: '131' on reverse of male figure in 284-1867.
Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner of whole panel and small section of tracery arch in above building of 264b-1867 and quatrefoil in window tracery above female figure in 264-1867.
264a and 264b-1867 likely formed a single openwork panel but have broken away from each other.
Holes for lost fittings.
Comments
Other panels from this casket are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (17.190.194) and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence (Inv. 118 C and Inv. 119 C).
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 131
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 116.
The South Kensington Museum (London, 1881), pl. 37.
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXXIII.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl. XXVII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 484; II, no. 1280; III, pl. CCXVII.
M. Longhurst, English Ivories (London, 1926), no. LIX, pp. 55, 110, pl. 48.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), pp. 8-9, pl. II.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), p.198, note 4.
Exhibition of English Mediaeval Art, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1930, no.458.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), p. 141.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp.79-81, 394, 396-97, 404.
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. 594-5, in relation to no. 179.
C. T. Little , ‘The Art of Gothic Ivories: Studies at the Crossroads,’ in The Sculpture Journal 23.1 (2014), p. 24.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 231.
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