Inv. 71.274
Tournament; ladies and youths (including a king and a queen) observing the jousting knights in armour from a balcony; lady with a dog; youth with a hawk on his wrist; two heralds blowing trumpets; horses; shields.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: two sections of the border (replaced with wood). 12 holes for the missing metal mounts.
Where three lateral mounts crossed the lid, the ivory has been recarved, as these parts would originally have been left unfinished.
Trace of the handle in the centre.
Provenance
Charles Stein collection, Paris. Collection of Lord Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London: sold, London, Christie's, 12 May 1902, lot 14; George R. Harding collection; sold to Henry Walters in London in 1903; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 488; II, no. 1294.
L. Réau, L'Art gothique en France (Paris, 1945), p. 63.
Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, ed. by D. Gillerman, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1977, no. 20, pp. 64-65.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 325.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 227.
All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.
