Inv. F 1975
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple embracing; dog.
Foliated capital.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Italy, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red and black.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Vertical cracks.
Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.
Bibliography
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), pp. 9 and 59.
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh, Prikladnoe iskusstvo Italii v sobranii Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1985, no. 11.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 155.
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