Set of Three Panels from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances
c. 1330–50
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
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 In the center panel 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ivory
- Formatted Medium
- ivory
- Medium
- ivory
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13 x 26.2 x 1 cm (5 1/8 x 10 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1978.39
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, A Cleveland Bestiary, Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Images of the Mind, Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 106C Medieval Treasury
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