Sculpted Alabaster Tondo Representing Courtly Love, 19th Century

Courtly Love, Alabaster Tondo From The 19th Century.

Very beautiful tondo carved in alabaster from the Napoleon III period surfing on the "troubadour" fashion.

It takes up the famous representations of courtly love in the Middle Ages.
Very beautiful quality of execution of the sculpture in high relief with a superb patina.
Beautiful ivory color of the stone.
The scene represents a young damsel courting his beauty while walking on horseback in the middle of the woods, probably during a hunt.
rabbits frolic at the feet of the horses and servants follow the couple.
The whole is very nicely carved and gives off a charming atmosphere.
The tondo is very thick and the alabaster is in very good condition, it has not been broken or restored, the cracks you see in the photos are the natural veins of the stone.

This tondo therefore takes up a famous theme from the Middle Ages with the return of Gothic, which was very fashionable under Napoleon III at the time when Viollet-Le-Duc restored many high-period monuments in France.

A very beautiful high-quality and very decorative sculpted tondo.

Dimensions:
26.5 cm in diameter and 3.5 cm thick.

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