Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a chaplet (gift of a chaplet); couple seated under a tree; lady with a hawk on her wrist; lady with a dog.
Interpreted as The Knight with the Red Robe (see Carns 2010).
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: French, c. 1370.
Carns 2010: French, c. 1375.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Vertical crack.
Comments
This panel forms a pair with another one also formerly in the Kofler-Truniger collection (see related objects).
Paula Mae Carns (2010) interprets these panel as illustrating the 13th century French fabliau 'The Knight with the Red Robe'. This panel is interpreted as, in the lower scene the lady talks to her husband, the animals she pets have been left behind by her lover (the knight) and her husband holds the clothes which the lover left behind, which he believes are a gift from his wife's brother. At the top of the panel, a lady passes a crown to her lover.
Provenance
Stroganoff collection, Rome . Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne: dispersed in the 1970s.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 410, 443; II, no. 1180; III, pl. CXCVII.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), nos. S.111 and 113.
P. Mae Carns, 'Having the last laugh: the fabliau of 'The knight with the red robe' in carved ivory', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CLII, no. 1292 (November 2010), pp. 712-715.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 589-90, in relation to no. 176.
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