Side 1: Fountain of Youth; old and young; cripple; bird in a tree; horse-drawn cart; ladies bathing.
Side 2: courting couples (meeting of lovers); couples watching from the castle battlements; couple embracing; offering of a flower.
Foliated decoration. Crosshatched background.
Lowden 2008: France, N. or Flanders, c. 1450 (?).
Museum's opinion 2008: France, N. or Flanders, 15th century, probably c. 1450.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Comments
Close to Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no. 231-1867, and 230-1867.Weight: 170 g.
Provenance
Exhibited at the British Archaeological Association, 18 March 1885. Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired from Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1975, lot 12, through Hermann Baer, London; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.
Bibliography
A. Rapp, Der Jungbrünnen in Literatur und bildender Kunst des Mittelalters (Zürich, 1976), pp. 83-84, 125-126, no. 12, fig. 8.
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 43.
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. 600-601, in relation to no. 182.
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