Side 1: lady bathing; flower growing in the bath tub; maid pouring water into the bath tub; lady standing beside a bed.
Side 2: tournament; winged knights jousting; horses.
Foliated decoration. Crosshatched background. Roped border.
Calkins 1968: French or Northern Italy?, 15th century.
Lawrence 1969: France, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Comments
Calkins interprets the scenes on side 1 as the preparation for the joust, and the rose in the tub as 'a reminder of the true knight's chivalric goal, the quest if not the attainment of his lady's favors' (Calkins 1968, p. 160).
Provenance
Paul Drey Gallery, New York (in 1968). Sotheby's, New York, 14 June 1996, lot 55.
Bibliography
Developments in the Early Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, Binghamton, University Art Gallery, 1968, no. 21.
R. G. Calkins, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, White Museum of Art, Cornell University and M. W. Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968, no. 84.
The Waning Middle Ages, ed. by J. L. Schrader, exhibition catalogue, Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1969, no. 85, pl. XVIII.
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