{"arkId":"cl010116564","url":"https:\/\/collections.louvre.fr\/ark:\/53355\/cl010116564","modified ":"2026-04-23","title":"Pommeau de selle : combat d\u0027amazones (?)","titleComplement":"","denominationTitle":[{"type":"Titre","value":"Pommeau de selle : combat d\u0027amazones (?)"}],"displayDateCreated":"Epoque \/ p\u00e9riode : gothique (Occident-\u003Emoyen \u00e2ge) (?)\r\n\r\nDate de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication : 1200 - 1300","currentLocation":"non expos\u00e9","room":"","isMuseesNationauxRecuperation":false,"dateCreated":[{"startYear":1200,"endYear":1300,"imprecision":"","text":"XIIIe si\u00e8cle (?)","type":"Date de cr\u00e9ation\/fabrication","doubt":""}],"creator":[],"objectNumber":[{"value":"OA 3360","type":"Num\u00e9ro principal"}],"collection":"D\u00e9partement des Objets d\u0027art du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes","printsDrawingsEntity":"","printsDrawingsCollection":"","objectType":"pommeau de selle","originalObject":"","printState":"","description":"Le morceau d\u0027ivoire, d\u0027un seul bloc, plus mince en haut qu\u0027en bas, est incurv\u00e9, la partie sculpt\u00e9e occupant le c\u00f4t\u00e9 concave, la partie convexe \u00e9tant lisse. Sous la partie inf\u00e9rieure est taill\u00e9, dans la masse, un \u00e9l\u00e9ment \u00e0 pans coup\u00e9s, de chaque c\u00f4t\u00e9 duquel venaient s\u0027ins\u00e9rer les \u00e9l\u00e9ments manquants de la partie inf\u00e9rieure, destin\u00e9s \u00e0 la mise en place du pommeau au-dessus du garrot du cheval. Le relief est bord\u00e9, sauf \u00e0 la partie inf\u00e9rieure, de rinceaux aux feuillages trilob\u00e9s, dentel\u00e9s, \u00e9voquant des feuilles d\u0027\u00e9rable, agr\u00e9ment\u00e9s de petits fruits grenus. L\u0027espace d\u00e9limit\u00e9 par cette bordure est enti\u00e8rement occup\u00e9 par un combat de femmes, mont\u00e9es \u00e0 cru sur des chevaux et des dromadaires, se battant au corps \u00e0 corps ou tirant les tresses de leurs adversaires. A demi-nues, ces femmes sont v\u00eatues de tissus aux plis fins et serr\u00e9s, certaines \u00e9tant coiff\u00e9es d\u0027un voile, d\u0027autres d\u0027une sorte de turban. Les unes sont munies d\u0027arcs, les autres de fouets plomb\u00e9s plut\u00f4t que de branches fleuries. Deux petits personnages qui semblent f\u00e9minins, si l\u0027on en juge par leur poitrine, sont assis, l\u0027un \u00e0 gauche, sur la croupe d\u0027un cheval, l\u0027autre, tr\u00e8s mutil\u00e9, \u00e0 droite, sur la croupe d\u0027un dromadaire ; celui de gauche para\u00eet rythmer le combat sur un tambourin et son pendant devait avoir la m\u00eame activit\u00e9. \r\nCette sc\u00e8ne a \u00e9t\u00e9 consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme un \u0022combat d\u0027amazones\u0022, mais il ne semble pas y avoir de repr\u00e9sentations d\u0027amazones combattant entre elles. Le sujet reste \u00e0 identifier. La forme de ce pommeau, incurv\u00e9e et concave, est attest\u00e9e par plusieurs repr\u00e9sentations m\u00e9di\u00e9vales.\r\nCe relief extr\u00eamement soign\u00e9 frappe par l\u0027aspect tr\u00e8s antiquisant des drap\u00e9s, ainsi que par le moelleux des model\u00e9s, la justesse des proportions et l\u0027abondance inhabituelle des nus f\u00e9minins. Si les chevaux tr\u00e8s \u00e9labor\u00e9s peuvent s\u0027inscrire dans un contexte m\u00e9di\u00e9val, les dromadaires sont plus d\u00e9concertants. Les effets de profondeur et de perspective, parfaitement rendus, sont \u00e9galement \u00e9tonnants.","inscriptions":"Inscription : \r ; grav\u00e9e en-dessous \u0022XVI\u0022","namesAndTitles":"","onomastics":"","dimension":[{"type":"Hauteur","value":"9,2","displayDimension":"9,2 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":1,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur","value":"24,5","displayDimension":"24,5 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":2,"note":""},{"type":"Profondeur","value":"2,7","displayDimension":"2,7 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":3,"note":""}],"shape":"","materialsAndTechniques":"Mat\u00e9riau : ivoire d\u0027\u00e9l\u00e9phant = d\u00e9fense d\u0027\u00e9l\u00e9phant","placeOfCreation":"Italie (Europe) (?)","dateOfDiscovery":"","placeOfDiscovery":"","provenance":"","historicalContext":[],"objectHistory":"Collection Louis Carrand (1821-1899), \u00e0 Lyon et Paris, avant 1868 ; collection Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Spitzer (1815-1890), sa vente \u00e0 Paris, 17 avril-16 juin 1893, lot n\u00b0 76, pl. 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