Inv. 71.266
Side 1: man and woman preparing to play 'kick foot' in a tilt yard; spectators watching from behind the railings.
Side 2: nude boy with a bow and nude boy with a hand cannon, shooting at a duck; putti; youth pulling the stocking of a seated woman.
Crosshatched background. Floral terminals.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, c. 1490-1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Small and large teeth have all been replaced by sections set into the frame.
Provenance
Collection of Countess Petronio: sold, Paris, 24 June 1921, lot 58. Bought by Henry Walters from H. Wareham Harding in New York in November 1921; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 365.
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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