Inv. 140 C
Side 1: soldier in armour guarding a gate; soldier with a spear; man and ladies; tree.
Side 2: courting couples (meeting of lovers); king holding a crown or wreath; dog.
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (Venice), c. 1370-1380.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: red and gold (decorative pattern on the background).
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Missing: two thin teeth.
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
H. Semper, 'Über ein italienisches Beintriptychon des XIV. Jahrhunderts im Ferdinandeum und diesem verwandte Kunstwerke', in Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg, III, s., 40 (1896), p. 176, no. X, 2.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 242, no. 140.
J. van Schlosser, 'Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig', in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses XX (1899), p. 225, no. 35.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies, 7 (1929), p. 178, fig. 17.
La Casa italiana nei secoli. Mostra delle arti decorative in Italia dal Trecento all'Ottocento, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1948, p. 43.
Firenze ai tempi di Dante, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Certosa di Galluzo, 1966, p. 124, no. 148, pl. 55 (mistakenly reproducing Inv. 139 C instead of Inv. 140 C; pl. 54 reproduces Inv. 140 C).
M. Tomasi, La bottega degli Embriachi (Florence, 2001), pp. 18-19, no. 1.
I Borgia, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Palazzo Ruspall, 2002, p. 259, no. III.11 (M. G. Vaccari).
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 526, in relation to no. 151.
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