Courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady with plaited hair.
Foliated capital.
London 1923: Italian (?), 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Italian (?), c. 1400 (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Black substance used for the eyes.
Reverse
Carved in the round. Label with handwritten inscription in ink: 'Presented by: Rv. Hon. F. Leverton Harris, m.a., Gonville & Caius College, May 1919'.
Object Condition
Very worn.
Comments
This piece is very long for a gravoir.
Provenance
Collection of Rev. Hon. Frederick Leverton Harris (b. 1864, d. 1926): presented by him to the Museum in 1919.
Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 150, p. 88.
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