Judgement of Paris (Mercury present); the three goddesses Venus, Juno and Minerva stand before Paris asleep; fountain.
Crosshatched background.
Williamson and Davies 2014: probably French or Netherlandish, c. 1520-1530.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the piece.
Missing: outer ring.
Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century (Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 310).
Provenance
Wallerstein-Oettingen collection, Maihingen (c. 1924). New York, Trinity Fine Art, November 1995, lot 23. Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1997, lot 161.
Bibliography
An Exhibition of Medieval, Renaissance and Islamic Works of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, Newhouse Galleries (Trinity Fine Art Catalogue no. 13, Florence), 1995, no. 23.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 208.
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