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Panel (fragment of a casket; end panel), 1 register (coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket; end panel), 1 register (coffret) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Arthurian romance.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 58mm
Width: 97mm

Yvain at the fountain; knight in armour; wild man holding a club; horse; trees; building.

Randall 1993: France (Paris), 1330-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat, with some scoring (modern).

Object Condition
Five holes for lost strapped rivets. Later hole in the base.

Provenance
Robert von Hirsch collection: sold Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 281. Washington, D.C., private collection (in 1993).

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 192.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 227.


Image

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