Inv. F 2917
Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; hunters on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady feeding a hawk; trees; whip; fashionable dress.
Foliated corner terminals.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part.
The mirror case has broken into two pieces which have been glued back together. Holes on either side of the crack indicate an earlier repair.
Provenance
Acquired in Vienna by the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, Saint Petersburg, 1886; transferred to the Hermitage in 1924.
Bibliography
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 96.
Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Eremitage Leningrad, exhibition catalogue, Berlin-Köpenick, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1974, no. 79.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, 'Kostianoi larets XIV veka i rodstvennye emu pamiatniki v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha', in Kul'tura i iskusstvo zapadnoevropeiskogo srednevekov'ia: materialy nauchnoi konferentsii (Moscow, 1981), pp. 277-288 (p. 288).
E. Nekrasova, Proizvedeniia frantsuzskoi reznoi kosti XIV veka kak pamiatniki srednevekovoi kurtuaznoi kul'tury, PhD thesis (Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg, 2002), p. 43.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 106.
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