Inv. 651 (almost completely destroyed)
Courting couples (meeting of lovers); couple kissing; seated lady and youth holding a chaplet; lady with a hawk on her wrist; two attendants crowning the seated couple; soldier with shield guarding the city or castle gate; trees.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Vöge 1900: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: late 14th century (?), doubts authenticity.
Dokumentation 2006: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Object Condition
Almost completely destroyed: one surviving fragment.
Provenance
Acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1854; undocumented after 7 April 1945; one fragment has survived and was returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 442 (`73.166).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 114, pl. LXXXII.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 48, pl. 56.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 410, 434, 522; II, no. 1205; III, pl. CXCVII.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 241.
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