Inv. F 50
Palace of the God of Love.
Register 1: courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet. Youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady holding a dog. Seated couple; lady holding a dog. Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.
Register 2: courting couples (meeting of lovers); couple making a wreath by a flowery bush; youth with a hawk on his wrist and holding a pair of gloves; couple playing chess; seated lady holding a dog; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Darcel and Basilewski 1874: France, 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Leningrad 1973 [Kryzhanovskaya]: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Missing: head of the upper left corner terminal; ears of the lower left corner terminal.
Chipped along the right side.
Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, acquired in 1874; acquired by the Museum in 1885.
Bibliography
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 103.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 409.
N. Kondakov, Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Ukazatel' otdeleniia srednikh vekov i epokhi vozrozhdeniia [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), p. 161.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epochi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), pp. 10 and 59.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 381, 388, 401; II, no. 1019.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 93.
D. Ross, 'Allegory and Romance on a Mediaeval French Marriage Casket', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948), p. 116, notes 6 and 7; p. 117, note 3.
Zapadnoevropeiskaia reznaia kost' IX-XIX vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha: katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], The State Hermitage Museum, 1973, no. 175.
Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Eremitage Leningrad, exhibition catalogue, Berlin-Köpenick, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1974, no. 78.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris, 2003), no. 130.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 105.
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