Inv. n. 1071
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters. Masks in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Vitali 1976: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Martini and Rizzardi 1990: Paris, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Martini 2004: Paris, 1st third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Later central hole in the upper part of the piece.
Corner terminals partly broken.
Provenance
Classense collection, i.e. collection assembled by the Camaldolese monks of Sant'Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna, acquired mainly during the 18th century; with the suppression of religious orders in 1797, the possessions of Ravenna's important abbeys passed on to the Comune of Ravenna; in 1804, the Museo Classense Municipale was established, which would become in 1885 the Museo Nazionale di Ravenna.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 361, no. 13.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 378; II, no. 999; III, pl. CLXXVI.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Allegory and Romance on a Mediaeval French Marriage Casket', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948), pp. 112-142 (p. 116, pl. 29b).
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), no. 14.
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), no. 17, pl. XII.
La collezione degli oggetti in avorio e osso. Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini (Ravenna, 2004), pp. 31-32.
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