Inv. 131 C
Castle of Love. Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple conversing; couple holding hands outside a castle; lady chucking her lover under the chin; lady with a hawk on her wrist; lady kneeling before a hermit; tree; turrets; elaborate architecture.
Masks in the spandrels. Foliated corner terminals.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Florence 1989: 19th century.
Chiesi 2011: France, c. 1375-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Four holes along the edges. Broken and repaired.
Missing: small part of the background in the upper part of the piece.
Comments
This piece seems to form a pair with Inv. 130 C, also in the Bargello collection, though it is uncertain how they were articulated together, as the back of both pieces is unlike that of most mirror cases.
Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861, lot 353. Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), p. 240, no. 131.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, 410, 443, 522; II, no. 1108; III, pl. CLXXXVII.
Arti del Medioevo e del Rinascimento. Omaggio ai Carrand, 1889-1989, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1989, pp. 249, no. 30 (E. Castelnuovo).
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 423-427.
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