Side 1: lady (?) on horseback; archer with bow and arrow; dog attacking a boar; hunter spearing a boar.
Side 2: Fountain of Youth; old and young; jester holding a bauble; offering of the heart; courting couple (meeting of lovers).
Foliated border: vine scrolls with grapes. Roped border. Crosshatched background.
Koechlin 1924: France, middle of 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Pierced with two holes in the upper border.
Provenance
Collection of Jubinal et de Saint-Albin. Collection of Mme Georges Duruy (in 1924). Drouot, Paris, 8 February 1960, lot 128.
Bibliography
C. Dreyfus, 'La collection Saint-Albin, Jubinal, Georges Duruy', in Les Arts 45 (September 1905), p. 18.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 428; II, no. 1152.
A. Rapp, Der Jungbrünnen in Literatur und bildender Kunst des Mittelalters (Zürich, 1976), pp. 84-85, 126, no. 13.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 215.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 599-60, in relation to no. 182.
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