Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady with a whip; tree.
Dalton 1909: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Red printed exhibition label: 'Exhibition of Art Treasures, 1857. Gooderich Court'. Red wax (remains of a seal).
Comments
Dalton (1909) believes that this panel is a writing tablet and that the leaf was thinned and converted into a panel.
Provenance
Collection of Francis Douce (b. 1757, d. 1834). Exhibition at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857. Collection of Augustus W.H. Meyrick (b. 1826, d. 1902); British Museum, by donation, 1878.
Bibliography
S. R. Meyrick, 'The Doucean Museum', in Gentlemen's Magazine (April 1836), no. 17 (?).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 361, Pl. LXXXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 437; II, no. 1192.
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