Tournament; queen and youths observing the jousting knights in armour from battlements; horses; shields; two heralds blowing trumpets; trees.
Masks in the spandrels.
Foliated corner terminals.
Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1906 and 1924: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: part of the lower left corner terminal.
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 100. Martin Le Roy collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine (at least from 1906 to 1924). Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (in 2008; catalogue, fig. 34).
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 65 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 35, pl. XVII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 386-387; II, no. 1038; III, pl. CLXXIX.
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