Inv. 71.284
Meeting of lovers (courting couple); man kneeling before a lady; lady crowning her lover with a chaplet.
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Label "14" and "MIRROR BACK. FRENCH WORK. XIV TH CENTURY."
Object Condition
Missing: one crouching monster. Two other monsters are partly broken. Worn. Large hole in the lower right corner terminal which seems to have been an original means of securing the mirror.
Provenance
Collection of Victor Gay (b. 1820, d. 1887); collection of Mrs V. Gay; sale, Paris, 23 March 1909, lot 76, pl. II. Bought by Henry Walters from Jacques Seligmann in Paris in 1912; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 378; II, no. 1001.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 320.
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