Gothic Ivories Project | Comb (peigne double; fragment) (Side 1)

Comb (peigne double; fragment) (Side 1)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.78

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 93mm

Side 1: two hunters; hunter spearing a boar.
Side 2: enthroned Frau Minne (Lady Love), presenting helms to kneeling knights; standing knights; dog.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: Italy, N. (Lombardy or Milan), c. 1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Broken.
Missing: about one quarter of the scenes, all small teeth.

Provenance
Collection of Victor Martin Le Roy, Neuilly-sur-Seine (c. 1924). Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris in 1925; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 346.

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