Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 82mm
Width: 55m

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth chucking his lover under the chin; couple embracing; youth with a hawk on his wrist; youth feeding a hawk; lady holding a chaplet; tree.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.
On the back: incised drawing with Lamb of God (Agnus Dei).

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1340.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Incised drawing: Lamb of God (Agnus Dei).

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.113, p. 32.

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