Cl. 450a
Monogram 'A A' linked by a love knot.
Foliated decoration.
Dalton 1909: Flemish, 19th century (British Museum panel).
Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat. Scoring along the edges.
Comments
A second panel from this casket is in the Cluny Museum (Cl. 450b) and a third one in the collection of the British Museum (OA.1340 (Dalton 373) (see related objects). The two Cluny panels seem to have belonged to the front of the casket as some uncarved areas probably corresponded to the location of the lock.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.
Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1105.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), p. 128 (in relation to no. 373).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 526; II, no. 1315; III, Pl. CCXXVIII.
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