Inv. 152/AV
Courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady crowning a youth with a chaplet; youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth with a hawk; couple kissing; couple making a chaplet; youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth kneeling before a lady; offering of a chaplet (gift of a chaplet).
Four compartments formed by the branches of trees in the centre and on the sides.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Mallé 1969: France or Northern Italy?, mid 14th century.
Vitali 1976: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Naples 1981: Paris, c. 1300-1330.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 88. Inscription in red '876' (original Museum number used until ca. 1950). Small circular label with no. '5'.
Provenance
Probably from the the dukes of Savoy collections; Museo Egizio/Museo di Antichità, Turin (from at least 1832): given as part of an exchange of pieces with the Museo Civico in 1871.
Bibliography
Museo Civico di Torino. Sezione Arte Antica. Cento tavole riproducenti circa 700 oggetti (Turin, 1905), pl. XCIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 381; II, no. 1009.
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), pp. 297-298, pl. 136 (as Inv. 88).
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), no. 5.
Giacomo Jaquerio e il Gotico Internazionale in Piemonte, ed. by E. Castelnuovo, G. Romano, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Palazzo Madama, 1979, pp. 286-287, pl. 55.
Medioevo e produzione artistica di serie. Smalti di Limoges e avori gotici in Campania, ed. by P. Giusti, P. Leone de Castris, exhibition catalogue, Naples, Museo Duca di Martina, 1981, pp. 100-101.
Le Stanze di Artù, ed. by E. Castelnuovo, exhibition catalogue, Alessandria, Complesso conventuale di San Francesco, ex Ospedale militare, 1999-2000, pp. 114, 187, no. 28, fig. 76.
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