Inv. 71.193
Two courting couples (meeting of lovers); man embracing a lady; lady crowning a youth with a wreath; winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Randall 1985: England or Germany, 1340-1350.
Randall 1997: French, 1340-1350.
Museum's opinion 2010: England or Germany, 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: part of the left side including the youth and two monsters (restored before 1924).
Comments
Stylistically close to British Museum, Dalton 360 Randall 1985).
Provenance
Collection of Louis Hugot: his sale, Drouot, Paris, 7 March 1924, lot 82; bought by Henry Walters from Henry Daguerre in Paris in 1924; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 328.
R. H. Randall Jr., 'Games on a Medieval Ivory', in Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 56 (1997), pp. 3-9 (p. 5, fig. 6).
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 566, in relation to no. 163.
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