Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple seated on the ground; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady talking to a small dog; trees.
Billets along the edge.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Griggs 1904-1907: France, 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 15th century (?), 'the authenticity of this piece is somewhat doubtful'.
Williamson and Davies 2014: probably France, 1st half of the 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat, with scoring. Traces of glue.
Object Condition
Missing: one billet in the upper part.
Broken and repaired at bottom left, along the man's right leg.
Central hole.
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 142.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 884 (`73.337).
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 367, in relation to no. 992.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 55 (not illustrated).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 252.
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