Inv. A.1902.216
Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; man wearing a tall pointed hat; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady with a hawk on her wrist; hunter on horseback blowing a horn; running hare.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Masks in the spandrels.
Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Extensive traces of glue.
Object Condition
Cracked. The corner terminals are made of different pieces of ivory and have been glued onto the edges.
Missing: part of the body of the upper left corner terminal.
Comments
This piece forms a pair with another piece also in the National Museum of Scotland (Inv. A.1902.216A; see Related Objects). When closed the corner terminals coincide, unlike in genuinely medieval examples.
Provenance
Collection of C. H. Buchler (on loan to the museum in 1883). Collection of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael (b. 1859, d. 1926), London: Christie's, London, 12-13 May 1902; acquired by the museum in 1902.
Bibliography
I. L. Finlay, Medieval Art at the Royal Scottish Museum, in Apollo LVII, no. 335 (January 1953), p. 27, fig. VI.
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