Side 1: bust of man in profile.
Side 2: bust of woman in profile.
Foliated decoration.
Sauzay 1863: 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of the 16th century.
Malgouyres 2010: French, beginning of the 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Pierced with a copper bar, copper suspension (ring on top and at bottom).
Provenance
Acquired by Charles Sauvageot in 1836 ('1548. gde pièce de chevalière bustes d'homme et femme adossés 25 [fr.]'); Donation to the Museum by Sauvageot in 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 301, p.71.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Série A., Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. A.142, p. 46.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 161, p. 305 (annotated 'fake' in the inventory).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 353, 431, 449; II, no. 1228.
Ivoires du Musée du Louvre 1480-1850: une collection inédite, exhibition catalogue, Dieppe, Château-Musée de Dieppe, 2005, p. 44.
Histoires d'ivoire. Collections du Musée du Louvre et des musées de Châlons-en Champagne, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 2007-2008, no. 16.
P. Malgouyres, Ivoires de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes. La Collection du Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2010), no. 122.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 475, in relation to no. 164.
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