Side 1: lady wearing an elaborate horned headdress (bourrelet); lady holding flowers; two men whipping a tree; vase; spindle (?); man wearing a houppelande and a big cloth cap or chaperon; man holding a comb; sun; flowers.
Side 2: courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of the hear (gift of the heart); youth with a hawk on his wrist; gathering of pears (?); man holding a club to beat the tree and make the fruits fall; female figure collecting the fruits in her skirt; fashionable dress.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration. Roped border.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France or Northern Italy, c. 1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
The scene on side 1 has been interpreted as referring to the marriage of the two main figures: the dowry of the bride being contained in the vase and the groom giving her a comb and a spindle.
Provenance
Collection of Jubinal et de Saint-Albin. Collection of Mme Georges Duruy (in 1924). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).
Bibliography
C. Dreyfus, 'La collection Saint-Albin, Jubinal, Georges Duruy', in Les Arts 45 (September 1905), p. 18.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 428, 429, 527; II, no. 1154.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.128, p. 34.
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. 599-60, in relation to no. 182.
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