Set of Three Panels from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances
Unknown Artist
c. 1330–50
Medium
ivory
Dimensions
13 × 26.2 × 1 cm
Classification
Ivory
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1978.39
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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 yout...