Inv. 648 (almost completely destroyed)
Meeting of lovers (courting couples); couple making a wreath. Musician angels in the spandrels (portable organ; string instrument); winged God of Love throwing arrows at lovers.
Tracery.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Vöge 1900: England, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: England (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: one fragment has survived.
Provenance
Nagler collection, Berlin; acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1835; undocumented after 7 April 1945; one fragment has survived and was returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958 while four more fragments were brought to Wiesbaden in 1946 and then to Berlin-Dahlem in 1958.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 472 (`73.176), Appendix, p.439.
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 140.
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. 441, no. 1204A; III, pl. CXCIX.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 241.
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. 594-5, in relation to no. 179.
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