Inv. 71.169
Attack on the Castle of Love; knights; horses; ladies and the God of Love defending the Castle of Love; ladies pouring baskets of roses on the attackers; crossbow; ladder; swords; shields; catapult; portcullis; lovers.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Randall 1985: France (Paris), 1320-1340. By the same carver as Koechlin 1105 now in Liverpool (World Museum, M 8010).
Detroit 1997 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 1320-1340. By the same carver as Koechlin 1095 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.131.1).
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: four corner terminals (monsters; remains of their tails).
Large chip in the upper right edge. Diagonal hole in the top (original).
Provenance
Treasury of the Cistercian Abbey of Rein (Styria): sold in 1928; purchased by Henry Walters on 1 December 1928 from Jacques Seligmann in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
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A. Schultz, Das Höfische Leben, I (Leipzig, 1889), p. 577.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 34, 406, 407, 408; II, no. 1097.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 322.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), p. 95.
S. L. Smith, The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature (Philadelphia, 1995), fig. 26.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 72, 230-231, no. 57.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, p. 159.
J. Hanson, 'Erotic Imagery on Byzantine Ivory Caskets', in Desire and Denial in Byzantium (Aldershot, 1999), pp. 171-184 (p. 180, fig. 16.6).
C. Dempsey, Inventing the Renaissance Putto (Chapel Hill, 2001), p. 85.
W. B. Davis, Duchamp: Domestic Patterns, Covers and Threads (New York, 2002), p. 40.
The Book of Kings, ed. by W. Noel and D. Weiss, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore, Walters Art Museum (Baltimore and London, 2002), no. 15, p. 164.
Saints, Sinners and Sisters, ed. by J. L. Carroll and A. G. Stewart (Aldershot, 2003), p. 79, figs. 4, 3, 80.
K. A. Smith, Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and their Books of Hours (Toronto, 2003), pp. 137, 138, fig. 69.
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