Courting couple (meeting of lover)including a queen; trees; dog.
Josephi (?): Italy, ca. 1400.
Egbert 1929: Italy (Venice?), ca. 1400.
Martini and Rizzardi 1990: Northern Italy (?), late 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: parts of the upper and lower borders.The piece is broken in two pieces along a vertical line. Several large and smaller holes (later).
Provenance
Acquired in 1854 from the collection of Freiherr von Aufseß by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (Inv. Pl.O. 396); de-accessioned in 1947.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 413; III, pl. CLXXXVIII.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 182, fig. 27].
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), p. 122, fig. 54.
Oggetti in avorio e osso nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1993), pp. 38-39, fig. 4c.
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