Tournament; jousting knights in armour; couples watching from the castle battlements; two heralds in trees blowing trumpets; courting couples (meeting of lovers); couple embracing; lady holding a dog.
Molinier 1904: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Calkins 1968: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (possibly Paris), c. 1320-1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat, with some scoring and scratches, bevelled on all sides to accommodate other panels of the casket. Label with cancelled number '32'.
Object Condition
Holes for lost fittings. Crosshatchings around the edges.
Provenance
Collection of Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne: sale 1906; collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
E. Molinier, Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim, tableaux et objets d'art (Paris, 1904), no. 72, p. 32.
R. S. Loomis, 'A Medieval Ivory Casket', in Art in America, 5 (1917), pp. 19-27, fig. 1.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 488; II, no. 1295.
R. G. Calkins, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Utica, White Museum of Art, Cornell University and M. W. Proctor Institute, 1968, no. 80.
Medieval Images: a Glimpse into the Symbolism and Reality of the Middle Ages, ed. C. Gómez-Moreno, C. E. von Nostitz, exhibition catalogue, Katonah (N. Y.), The Katonah Gallery, 1978, no. 21.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 227.
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