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Dagger handle (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 2547

Ivory

Height: 165mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 20mm; 31mm (base)

Courting couples (meeting of lovers); couple embracing; youth crowning his kneeling lover; lion devouring a man; trees; head of man.

Koechlin Number: 1145B

Koechlin 1924: Italy, early 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 19th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Northern Italian (Venice?), 1360-1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Found in Auvergne. Bought by the Museum from Baur in 1856.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1111.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 422, n. 5, 452; II, no. 1145B, pl. CXC.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 141.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 226.

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