Gawain on the perilous bed; bed on wheels and with bells; lions; Gawain holding a sword; spears falling from the sky; the three maidens at the Castle of the Maidens; clouds.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2015: France (Paris), c. 1300-1315.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth, with one indent in the middle of the left and right sides.
Inscriptions: 'Pa', '199'(?), '48' (corresponding to the 1919 sale). Incised inscription: 'h' (Gothic script; old assemblage mark).
Object Condition
Holes for the missing fittings.
Provenance
Collection of Michel Manzi (b. 1849, d. 1915), Paris: sold, at the Manzi-Joyant sale, Paris, 15-16 December 1919, lot 48. Collection of Paul Corbin (b. 1862, d. 1948), thence by descent; Beaussant-Lefèvre, Paris, 5 April 2013, lot 54; bought at this sale.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 492; II, no. 1297bis.
Antiques Trade Gazette (20 April 2013), p. 2.
E. Antoine-König, 'De la Vierge Glorieuse à messire Gauvain, fleur de la chevalerie', in Grande Galerie. Le journal du Louvre 25 (Sept.-Oct.-Nov. 2013), pp. 8-9.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 227.
E. Antoine-König, 'Acquisitions 2012-2013-Département des Objets d'art', in La Revue des Musées de France. Revue du Louvre (2014), no. 2, p. 58, no. 9.
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