Inv. n. 1111
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); embracing couple.
Martini and Rizzardi 1990: Northern Italy (Lombardy?), c. 1370-1390.
Martini 2004: Northern Italy (Lombardy?), c. 1370-1390.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red and green (clothes and faces).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Numerous cracks.
Provenance
Classense collection, i.e. collection assembled by the Camaldolese monks of Sant'Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna, acquired mainly during the 18th century; with the suppression of religious orders in 1797, the possessions of Ravenna's important abbeys passed on to the Comune of Ravenna; in 1804, the Museo Classense Municipale was established, which would become in 1885 the Museo Nazionale di Ravenna.
Bibliography
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), no. 33.
La collezione degli oggetti in avorio e osso. Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini (Ravenna, 2004), p. 58 no. 33.
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