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Panel - Hunting scenes

Hunting scenes

  • Object:

    Panel

  • Place of origin:

    Paris, France (made)

  • Date:

    1320-1330 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Carved ivory

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Alfred Williams Hearn

  • Museum number:

    A.37-1923

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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This ivory panel, made in the middle of 14th century in Paris, is from the front of a casket. To the right a woman with a branch in her hand rides on horseback, followed by a servant carrying a hare on a pole. Behind him are a seated woman with a falcon and a man on horseback holding a falcon, accompanied by a servant and a dog. In the centre is the lock hole with four silver nuts in the shape of fleurs-de-lys

Physical description

Carved ivory panel from a casket depicting hunting scenes. In three compartments each surmounted by two trefoil arches. To the right a woman with a branch in her hand rides on horseback, followed by a servant carrying a hare on a pole. Behind him are a seated woman with a falcon and a man on horseback holding a falcon, accompanied by a servant and a dog. In the centre is the lock hole with four silver nuts in the shape of fleurs0de-lys.

Place of Origin

Paris, France (made)

Date

1320-1330 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Carved ivory

Dimensions

Length: 18.5 cm, Height: 6.2 cm

Descriptive line

Carved ivory panel from a casket depicting hunting scenes, German (Rhine), mid 14th century

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Koechlin, R. Les Ivoires Gothiques Français. Vol. III. Paris, A. Picard, 1924.
Gaboit-Chopin, Damielle. Ivoires médiévaux, Ve - XVe siècle. Paris : Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2003. cat. no. 173.
Longhurst, Margaret H. Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory. London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1927-1929. Part II. p. 52.

Categories

Sculpture; Sport

Collection code

SCP

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Qr_O106744
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