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Subject
Secular. Romance.
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London, The British Museum
1892,0801.47 (Dalton 367)
Ivory;metal (hinges;nails)
Height: 97mm
Width: 226mm
Depth: 108mm
Romance of the Châtelaine de Vergi.
Lid
Register 1: Courting couple (meeting of lovers); the Châtelaine secretly meets the knight; dog. Châtelaine discussing with the knight. The knight rejects the advances made by the Duchess of Burgundy; bed. The Duchess tells the Duke of Burgundy that the knight has offended her.
Register 2: the Châtelaine trains her dog to be her messenger. The Châtelaine sends her dog to the knight. The knight and the Châtelaine meet in her bedroom. The Duke of Burgundy threatens the knight, kneeling; sword. The knight, to exonerate himself, tells the Duke about his liaison with the Châtelaine.
Rosettes and masks in the spandrels.
Body, back
The knight brings the duke of Burgundy through the forest. The knight embraces the Châtelaine, her dog is at her feet. The duke tells the duchess about their idyll; bed. The Châtelaine receives an invitation to the Carnival ball organised by the Duchess; trees.
End, left
Ladies dancing a carole; the Duchess compliments the Châtelaine on her skill at training dogs; two musicians blowing trumpets.
Body, front
The Châtelaine, seeing that her secret has been betrayed, dies of sorrow; bed; sword; servant. The knight, discovering the dead body of the Châtelaine, commits suicide by piercing his chest with a sword. The Duke, discovering the two corpses, removes the sword from the body of the knight and goes in search of the Duchess.
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The Duke beheads the Duchess at the ball; two musicians holding trumpets.
Koechlin Number: 1307
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of 14th century.
Detroit 1997: French (Paris), c. 1320-1340.
Robinson 2008: French (Paris), c. 1320-1340.
Museum's opinion 2011: French (Paris), c. 1320-1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on all sides.
Object Condition
Missing: fittings and lock.
Crosshatching where the lost fittings used to be.
Provenance
Collection of Augustus Wollaston Franks (b. 1828, d. 1897); British Museum, by donation, 1892.
Bibliography
A. Kemp-Welch, The Chatelaine of Vergi: a 13th-century Romance (London and Paris, 1903).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 367, pl. LXXXIII-LXXXV.
C. Borinski, La Châtelaine de Vergi in der Kunst des Mittelalters, in Monatschefte für Kunstwissenschaft (1909), pp. 58-63 (p. 58).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 509; II, no. 1307.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, fig. 63b, p. 244.
J. Robinson, Masterpieces of Medieval Art (London, 2008), p. 220.
Image
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