Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket; back panel), 1 register, 7 arches across (casket; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Couple playing chess; man with a hawk on his wrist.Winged God of Love throwing arrows at lovers; lady with a dog.Man feeding his hawk; lady raising her hand; courting couple (meeting of lovers).

Koechlin 1924: France, mid-14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1320-1340.

Attribution
Atelier of the Cracow casket (Gaborit-Chopin 2003)

Reverse
Very flat (subsequently planed?), with the exception of the upper part (scratched).

Object Condition
Ivory cracked. Yellow staining.
Holes for ironwork (both original and modern).
Right column carved in the space originally occupied by ironwork.

Comments
This panel comes from the same casket as the front panel now at the Victoria and Albert Museum (A.37-1923), see Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Williamson and Davies 2014. See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Félix Doistau, Paris (in 1900); gift of Félix Doistau to the Museum in 1919.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 169 (Doistau collection).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479, note 1, II, no. 1275.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 173.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 229, p. 665, fig. 1.

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