Inv. 127 C
Attack on the Castle of Love; God of Love throwing arrows at lovers; knights in armour assaulting the castle; courting couples (meeting of lovers); knight holding a sword by its blade; youth chucking his lover under the chin; knight climbing a ladder; knight being lifted onto the battlements by another knight; trees; horses.
Corner terminals: hybrids.Crosshatched background. Band of quatrefoils.
Koechlin 1924: France, 19th century (?).
Chiesi 2011: France or Rhineland, c. 1330-1350 (?).
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Missing: parts of the background to the left.
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
G. Sangiorgi, La Collection Carrand au Bargello (Rome, 1895), p. 12.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 238, no. 127.
E. Gerspach, 'La Collection Carrand au musée national de Florence', in Les Arts 32 (August 1904), p. 23, pl. 83.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, in relation to no. 1099.
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), p. 26, no. 12.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 302-311.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 204.
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