Side 1: youth on horseback; trees; dogs; hybrids; lion with the head of a man in its claws.
Side 2: lady with a hawk on her wrist; hybrids; dogs; trees.
Top: nude female figure.
Museum's opinion 2009: France, 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: North Italian (probably Venice), 1360-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Collection of Auguste Dutuit, Paris (at least from 1867): Dutuit bequest to the Museum in 1902.
Bibliography
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 1758.
H. Lapauze, Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit (Paris, 1907), p. 247, no. 1279.
A. Fauchier-Magnan, C. Gronkowski, H. Lapauze, Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit (Paris, 1925), no. 1336.
El jardín de Melibea, exhibition catalogue, Burgos, Monasterio de San Juan de Burgos, 2000, no. 87.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 226.
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