Attack on the Castle of Love; couple embracing (courting couple; meeting of lovers); knights in armour assaulting the castle; ladies throwing flowers from the battlements; knight climbing a tree; horses; knights brandishing stems of flowers; shields with flowers.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Repair to the upper rim (above the couple on the battlements) and to the upper left and lower right corner terminals (1873 engraving shows the mirror case before restoration).
Provenance
Collection of Ferenc Pulszky (in 1873-1874). Collection of Paul Garnier, Paris: his sale, Paris, 18-23 December 1916, lot 46. Collection of Maurice Sulzbach, Paris (in 1924). Collection Adda: sale Drouot, Paris, 20 November-3 December 1965, lot 200.
Bibliography
I. Henszlmann, 'Einige Gegenstaende der Ungarischen Amateur-Austellung auf der Wiener Weltaustellung', in Mitteilungen der K.K. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale (1874), repr. on p. 238.
I. Henszlmann, A bécsi 1873. évi világtárlatok magyarországi kedvelőinek régészeti osztálya, ehibition catalogue [1873 Vienna World Exhibition], Budapest, 1876, p. 173.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), possibly no. 848 ('58.203).
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 159.
G. Migeon, 'Collection Paul Garnier', in Les Arts 53 (May 1906), pt. 2, pp. 13-24 (pp. 14 and 16).
Exposition des objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann (Paris, 1913), no. 119.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 407, 408; II, no. 1088; III, pl. CLXXXV.
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