id:			149381
accession number:	1978.39.b
share license status:	CC0
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Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances, 1330-1350 or later. France, Lorraine?, Gothic period, 14th century. Ivory; overall: 9.8 x 25.9 x 1 cm (3 7/8 x 10 3/16 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1978.39.b

title:				Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances
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creation date:			1330-1350 or later
creation date earliest:		1330
creation date latest:		1375
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: 9.8 x 25.9 x 1 cm (3 7/8 x 10 3/16 x 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages
	opening date:   1985-01-22T05:00:00
	<i>Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages</i>. 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
	<i>Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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).

	title:		The Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World
	opening date:   2019-05-14T04:00:00
	<i>The Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World</i>. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (May 14-August 18, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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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. This side panel depicts scenes such as the fountain of youth and the unicorn hunt. These images suggesting chivalry, fertility, virginity, youth, and an idealized courtly love likely derive from manuscripts including the <em>Roman de la Rose</em> 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

	Wixom, William D. "Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 3 (1979).
	page number: 	pp. 87-151
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25159622

	Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 2, p. 13; Mentioned: p. 13, p. 60
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	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. 48, 60
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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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	Mikolic, Amanda. <em>Hunting for a Unicorn Horn: Narwhal Tusks in Medieval Monsters</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art The Thinker Blog on Medium, September 6, 2019.
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	url:		https://medium.com/cma-thinker/hunting-for-a-unicorn-horn-narwhal-tusks-in-medieval-monsters-1455c03fb529

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