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Saddle with reliefs (selle; appliqués) (Side, right)
Saddle with reliefs (selle; appliqués) (Side, right)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 3 A

Stag's horn;bone;wood;parchment

Height: 385mm
Width: 365mm
Depth: 470mm

Right side
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); hunter on foot holding a spear; dragon holding a scroll; youth holding a shield; offering of the heart; trees; eagle; seated lady holding a scroll with inscription 'aspero tempo'
Left side
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); hunter on foot holding a spear; lion and scroll; couple holding a scroll with inscription 'amor'; standing youth; animals eating; trees.
Back of the seat
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of the heart; trees; flowers; woven fence.
Foliated decoration; roped border.

Museum's opinion 2014: Northern Italy, 1st half of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red, green (trees), black (inscriptions)

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Missing: a few decorative parts.

Provenance
Medici collection (transferred from Palazzo Pitti to the Guardaroba generale of the Palazzo Vecchio on 10 December 1780; from 24 January 1781, returned to the Real Galleria); came to the museum on 1865.

Bibliography
A. Campani, Guida per il visitatore del R. Museo Nazionale nell'antico palazzo del Potestà in Firenze (Florence, 1884), pp. 106-107.
J. von Schlosser, 'Elfenbeinsättel des ausgehenden Mittelalters', in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, 15 (1894), pp. 260-294, no. 19, fig. 11. Fully accessible online as part of the Heidelberger historische Bestände: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jbksak1894/0318 [accessed 24/07/2013].
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 373.
M. Verő, 'Bemerkungen zu den beinsätteln aus der Sigismundzeit', in Sigismundus rex et imperator : Kunst und Kultur zur Zeit Sigismunds von Luxemburg 1387-1437, exhibition catalogue, Budapest and Luxemburg, 2006, pp. 270-278 (p. 271, fig. 3 and p. 278, no. 24).


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