Two men compete in a game of quintain, or foot jousting; three onlookers; fashionable dress.
Blind arches and tracery in the spandrels and gables; border of dentils.
Koechlin 1924 and Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (probably Paris), 1375-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Reverse of the Crucifixion scene divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular.
Object Condition
Worn.
Left edge (when seen from the front) more worn.
Provenance
Acquired from a Mr Mather in London in 1869.
Bibliography
List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington, Acquired During the Year 1869, Arranged According to the Dates of Acquisition [London, c. 1869], p. 18.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 127.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 439; II, no. 1200; III, pl. CXCCVIII.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 51, pl. XLV.
R. H. Randall Jr., 'Games on a Medieval Ivory', in Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 56 (1997), p. 5.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 244.
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