Inv. F 3204
Fortified city; couple embracing; youth dancing; couple dancing; musician shepherd playing the flute; hanging purse; tree; wolf and sheep; ram.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 14th century or 19th century (?).
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Northern France or Germany, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Minor cracks.
Comments
Koechlin pairs this panel with his no. 1183, which is in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest (Inv. 18853). See related objects.
Provenance
Acquired in 1879 (from Malinet in Paris) by the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1925.
Bibliography
F. Bock, 'Das Ungarische Museum in Pest', in Mitteilungen der K.K. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale 12 (1867), p. 117.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 444; II, no. 1184.
"Fraiburskii" krest i ego mir. Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo Srednikh vekov v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, 2004, no. 45.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, V mire zamkov i soborov. Prikladnoe iskusstvo zapadnogo Srednevekov'ia (Saint Petersburg, 2007), pp. 146-147.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 113.
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