Inv. 71.170
Fountain of Youth. Old and young; cripples; lovers on the battlements; courting couples (meeting of lovers); man kneeling before a lady; lady holding a dog; bird in a tree; horse-drawn cart; bathing.
Corner terminals: two crouching monsters; two crouching hybrids.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Randall 1966: French, 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 1330-1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Large chip at the drilled hole at the top. Crack through the right side.
Provenance
Collection of Count Gregorii Stroganoff, Rome. Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 396, 440, 491; II, no. 1067; III, pl. CLXXXII.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Allegory and Romance on a Mediaeval French Marriage Casket', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948), pp. 112-142 (p. 128, pl. 30e).
R. H. Randall, 'The Medieval Artist and Industrialized Art', in Apollo 84 (December 1966), pp. 434-441, fig. 7.
R. H. Randall, Medieval Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1969), no. 23.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 323.
M. Kauffmann, 'Satire, Pictorial Genre and the Illustrations in BN fr. 146', in Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS français 146, ed. by M. Bent and A. Wathey (Oxford, 1998), pp. 285-305, fig. 13.14.
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