Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 3140
Meeting of lovers (courting couples); youth kneeling before a lady; couple holding a sword (offering of a sword); couple embracing.
Hybrids in the spandrels.
Westwood 1876 and Molinier 1890: France, 14th century.
Destrée 1902: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
London 1923: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Handwritten inscription: 'Francis Douce'.
Provenance
Francis Douce collection (no. 20). Meyrick collection. Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 87 (mislabeled no. 97 in the plates).
Bibliography
S. R. Meyrick, 'The Doucean Museum', in Gentlemen's Magazine (April 1836), no. 20.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 178, no. 13.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 863 ('58.215).
L. Gonse, L'Art gothique: l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture, le décor (Paris, 1890), pl. opp. p. 10.
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 52 (E. Molinier).
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 20 (10150).
J. Destrée, 'Un Miroir mosan', in Bulletin des Musées du Cinquantenaire (1913), p. 9.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 147, pl. XL.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 379, 380, 483, 488; II, no. 1006; III, pl. CLXXVII.
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