Inv. 71.206
Unidentified story.Courting couples (meeting of lovers); couple playing chess, observed by a lady; lady threatening a bearded man or hermit with a broom; old man climbing up to a house, still threatened by the lady; trees; steep landscape.
Masks in the spandrels.
Ann Arbor 1975: French, late 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: North French (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century. Attributed to the Atelier of the Boxes.
Attribution
Atelier of the Boxes (Randall 1985)
Reverse
Leveled, probably to reuse the plaque on a book cover.
Object Condition
Chips on the edges and candle burns.
Provenance
Probably bought in 1929 by Henry Walters; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
Images of Love and Death in Renaissance and Late Medieval Art, exhibition catalogue, ed. by W. R. Levin, Ann Harbor, University of Michigan, Nov. 1975-Jan. 1976, no. 71, pl. VIII.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 335.
P. Jolly, 'Crosscurrents in the Mid-Trecento French Medieval Ivories and the Camposanto, Pisa', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 118 (November 1991), pp. 161-170.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 589-90, in relation to no. 176.
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