Inv. 647 (almost completely destroyed)
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); squirrel on the lady's right arm; youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Rosettes in the spandrels.
Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Prior to WWII
Four holes on the left side. Damaged around the edges at the back.
Today
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: six fragments have survived.
Provenance
Acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1840; undocumented after 7 April 1945; six fragments returned from the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.
Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 89, pl. XXXII.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 47, pl. 56.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 435, 436, 482; II, no. 1187; III, pl. CXCVIII.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 240.
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