id:			149379
accession number:	1978.39
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.39
updated:		2019-07-23 08:00:15.025000

Set of Three Panels from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances, c. 1330-50. France, Lorraine?, Gothic period, 14th century. Ivory; overall: 13 x 26.2 x 1 cm (5 1/8 x 10 5/16 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1978.39

title:				Set of Three Panels from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances
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creation date:			c. 1330-50
creation date earliest:		1330
creation date latest:		1350
current location:		106C Medieval Treasury
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	France, Lorraine?, Gothic period, 14th century
technique:	ivory
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Ivory
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measurements: Overall: 13 x 26.2 x 1 cm (5 1/8 x 10 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 13-March 18, 1979).

	title:		A Cleveland Bestiary
	opening date:   1981-10-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Cleveland Bestiary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14-December 16, 1981).

	title:		Images of the Mind
	opening date:   1987-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

	title:		Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain
	opening date:   2016-10-09T00:00:00
	<i>Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 9, 2016-February 26, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/09/2016-02/26/2017); “Myth and Mystique: Cleveland’s Gothic Table Fountain”.

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PROVENANCE

	Trivulzio, Milan (before 1897); Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt (until 1933) and Basel (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 22 June 1978, no. 290).
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Among the most lavish and deluxe products of French ivory workshops of the 1300s were large caskets carved with elaborate scenes drawn from courtly romances. The panels shown here come from such a casket. The largest panel (center) once formed the lid and depicts a tournament, the most splendid and romantic of knightly activities. Just to the right is a favorite allegory of chivalric love: knights assaulting the castle of love. The two side panels depict other scenes such as the fountain of youth, Sir Gawain and the Lion, and Lancelot crossing the sword bridge. These images suggesting chivalry, fertility, virginity, youth, and an idealized courtly love likely derive from manuscripts including the Roman de la Rose and the poems of Chrétien de Troyes. Such texts were often found within the libraries of the aristocracy, so the casket’s symbolic images would have been readily understood. Such caskets may have originally been gifts between a man and a woman. The expense of the material, ivory, suggests they were produced for an elite, aristocratic clientele.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Castronovo, Simonetta, Fabrizio Crivello and Michele Tomasi. <em>Collezioni del Museo Civico d'Arte Antica di Torino: Avori Medievali.</em> Savigliano (Cuneo) : L’Artistica editrice, [2016].
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 22, note 40
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	Squizzato, Alessandra and Francesca Tasso. <em>Gli avori Trivulzio: arte, studio e collezionismo antiquario a Milano fra XVIII e XX secolo</em>.  Padova: Il poligrafo,  2017.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp/ 216-217; Reproduced: plates 60-61
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	Cohen, Meredith. "The Bestiary beyond the Book." In <em>Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World</em>. Elizabeth Morrison and Larisa Grollemond, eds. pp. 177 - 225. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 214, cat. 63
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