Inv. A.1902.216A
Tournament; queen and two youths observing the jousting knights in armour from battlements; horses; shields; two heralds blowing trumpets.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters. Masks in the spandrels.
Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
The corner terminals are made of different pieces of ivory and have been glued onto the edges.
Comments
This piece forms a pair with another piece also in the National Museum of Scotland (Inv. A.1902.216; see Related Objects). When closed the corner terminals coincide, unlike in genuinely medieval examples.
Provenance
Collection of C. H. Buchler (on loan to the museum in 1883). Collection of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael (b. 1859, d. 1926), London: Christie's, London, 12-13 May 1902; acquired by the museum in 1902.
Bibliography
I. L. Finlay, Medieval Art at the Royal Scottish Museum, in Apollo LVII, no. 335 (January 1953), p. 27, fig. VI.
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