Lancelot fighting the lion and crossing the Sword Bridge, ca. 1310-1330, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 14
From the Met website: (x) "This group of five ivory panels are the reassembled elements of a "composite casket," so called by scholars because the narrative scenes that adorn them are vignettes from a variety of popular stories and chivalric romances."
Left to right: "Lancelot fights a Lion, Lancelot crosses the Sword Bridge, Gawain lays upon the Perilous Bed, the Three Maidens of La Roche de Canguin watch the Adventure of the Perilous Bed"
