Inv. 150/AV
Side 1: meeting of lovers (courting couples); lady chucking her lover under the chin; trees, dogs.
Side 2: lady aiming at her lover with a bow; lover pierced by an arrow; offering of a flower (gift of a flower).
Mallé 1969: Northern Italy (Venice? Lombardy?), c. 1370-1380.
Turin 1996 and Museum's opinion 2010: Lombardy?, 1370-1380.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy, especially on side 2: clothes, hair, foreground.
Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 90. Inscription in red '878' (original Museum number used until ca. 1950).
Provenance
Probably from the dukes of Savoy collections. Museo Egizio/Museo di Antichità, Turin (from at least 1832): given as part of an exchange of pieces with the Museo Civico in 1871.
Bibliography
Museo Civico di Torino. Sezione Arte Antica. Cento tavole riproducenti circa 700 oggetti (Turin, 1905), pl. c.x., 94.
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), pp. 300-301, pl. 139-140 (as Inv. 90).
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), p. 122, fig. 51.
Il tesoro della città. Opere d'arte e oggetti preziosi da Palazzo Madama, ed. by S. Pettenati, G. Romano, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, 1996, no. 142.
S. Castronovo, E. Pagella, Arte in Piemonte (Turin, 2003), II: Il Gotico, p. 80.
Le Bain et le miroir. Soins du corps et cosmétiques de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance, I. Bardiès-Fronty, M. Bimbenet-Privat, P. Walter, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de Cluny (Musée national du Moyen Âge), and Musée national de la Renaissance (Château d'Ecouen), 20 May - 21 September 2009, no. Cl. 128.
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