id: 149380 accession number: 1978.39.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.39.a updated: Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances, c. 1330–50 or later. 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.a title: Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1330–50 or later creation date earliest: 1330 creation date latest: 1375 current location: 106C Medieval Treasury creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Lorraine?, Gothic period, 14th century technique: ivory department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Ivory find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 13 x 26.2 x 1 cm (5 1/8 x 10 5/16 x 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00 Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Year in Review 1978, The Cleveland Museum of Art, (1979).

A Cleveland Bestiary, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, (October 14-December 9, 1981).

Images of the Mind, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-August 23, 1987).

Survival of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Medieval Art, Brown University Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, (February 28-March 29, 1987). --- PROVENANCE Trivulzio, Milan (before 1897); Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt (until 1933) and Basel (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 22 June 1978, no. 290). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Two knights in mail surcoats and helms joust here with blunted lances "for courtesy," a version of the joust known as the Joust of Peace. digital description: wall description: 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 panel shown here comes from such a casket. The largest panel (here) 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. 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wixom, William D. "Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 3 (1979). page number: p. 87-151 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159622 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Barbara A. Kathman. A Cleveland Bestiary. 1981. page number: pp. 2 & ad, cat. no. 6 url: Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: p. 60, repr. p. 48 url: Brown University, and David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University). Survival of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Medieval Art : an Exhibition by the Department of Art, Brown University, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, February 28-March 29, 1987. Providence, R.I.: The Department, 1987. page number: pp. 64-5, cat. no. 20 url: Wixom, William. "A Glimpse at the Fountains of the Middle Ages." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 8 (2003): 6-23. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 17 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079727 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 188-189, no. 67 url: Kopp, V. & E. Lapina, "Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance". Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600) Volume 8, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020. page number: pp. 226-28 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.39.a/1978.39.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.39.a/1978.39.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.39.a/1978.39.a_full.tif