Inv. 650 (almost completely destroyed)
Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady with a whip; trees.
Westwood 1876 and Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, early 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: France, early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Prior to WWII
Chipped edges; holes for fittings.
Today
Almost completely destroyed during WWII; four fragments have survived.
Provenance
Acquired for the Kunstkammer in Bologna in 1844; whereabouts unknown after 7 April 1945; Merkers, Kaligrube Kaiseroda, box no. 19 DM (possibly mistake) tbc; four fragments brought to Wiesbaden in 1946; returned to Berlin-Dahlem in 1958.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 453 (`73.169), Appendix, p. 439.
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 92, pl. XXXII.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 48, pl. 56.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479; II, no. 1276.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 242.
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