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| Keywords: French - Casket with Scenes of Romances - Walters 71264 - Bottom.jpg This splendid casket is carved with scenes from romances and allegorical literature representing the courtly ideals of love and heroism In the center of the lid knights joust as ladies watch from the balcony; to the left knights lay siege to the Castle of Love the subject of an allegorical battle The remaining scenes on the casket are drawn from well-known stories about Aristotle and Phyllis Tristan and Iseult and tales of the gallant heroic deeds of Gawain Galahad and Lancelot The box may originally have been a courtship gift between 1330 1350 Medieval ivory with modern iron mounts cm 11 8 25 2 12 9 accession number 71 264 5780 Rev John Bowle Wiltshire prior to 1757 Gustavus Brander Christchurch Hampshire prior to 1787 mode of acquisition unknown Francis Douce London prior to 1824 mode of acquisition unknown Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick Goodrich Court Herefordshire prior to 1836 mode of acquisition unknown Lt Col Augustis Meyrick 1848 by inheritance Frédéric Spitzer Paris by purchase Sale Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim April 17 1893 no 114 Oscar Hainauer Berlin prior to 1897 mode of acquisition unknown Hector Economos Paris prior to 1913 mode of acquisition unknown Henri Daguerre Paris after 1913 mode of acquisition unknown Arnold Seligmann Rey and Co Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1923 Ivory The Sumptuous Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983-1984 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Plants and Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1991 Medieval Games of Love and War The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 Images in Ivory Precious Objects of the Gothic Age The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 The Book of Kings Art War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Academy of the Arts Easton Easton; Princeton University Art Museum Princeton; The Mitchell Gallery Annapolis; Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown 2002 Romance of the Rose Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2009 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Casket with Scenes of Romances - Walters 71264 Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Ivory caskets Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
