Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 80 mm
Width: 136mm

Courting couples (meeting of lovers). Youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth holding a pair of gloves. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet. courting couple.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels and in the gables.

Koechlin Number: 1272

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Holes for the missing fittings.
The left upper corner has broken off and been glued back into place.

Provenance
Edouard Aynard sale, 1 December 1913, lot 176. Drouot, 19 June 1979, lot 96.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479, II, no. 1272.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479, II, no. 1272.

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