Castle of Love; courting couple (meeting of lovers); embracing couple; God of Love throwing arrows at lovers from the battlements; ladies on a staircase; lady holding a key; lion; staircase; towers.
Alternative interpretation: Galahad receiving the keys to the Castle of the Maidens.
Masks in the spandrels. Foliated corner terminals.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: upper right corner terminal partly broken.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Heugel collection, Paris: sale, 1902; Lowengard collection (in 1902). Collection of Cyril Humphris: sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10-11 January 1995, lot 2. Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 214.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Le Dieu d'Amour', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts II (1921), p. 293.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 409, 442; II, no. 1101; III, pl. CLXXXVII.
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