Courteous Love, Alabaster Tondo Of Nineteenth Century

Beautiful tondo carved in alabaster from the Napoleon III era.
it takes up the famous representations of courteous love in the Middle Ages.
Very nice quality of execution of the sculpture in high relief with a superb patina.
Beautiful color ivory of the stone.
The scene depicts a young damsel courting his beauty while walking on horseback in the middle of the woods no doubt during a hunt. Rabbits wading at the feet of the horses and servants follow the couple. The ensemble is very nicely sculpted 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 thus takes up a famous theme of the Middle Ages with the return of the Gothicfashionable under Napoleon III at the time when Viollet-Le-Duc restored many high-time monuments in France.
a very beautiful sculpted tondo of high quality and very decorative.
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