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Writing tablet, 2 registers, 2 scenes across, bands of rosettes, colonnettes (décor de roses; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 2 scenes across, bands of rosettes, colonnettes (décor de roses; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 122mm
Width: 68mm
Depth: 5mm

Meeting of lovers (courting couples); offering of a flower; lady making a chaplet; lady crowning a youth with a chaplet; hawk; winged God of Love throwing arrows at lovers; winged God of Love in a tree.

Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century (Koechlin was unaware of the existence of this tablet but its companion piece is no. 1217).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax; with raised border.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the tablet.

Comments
The companion piece to this writing tablet is now in the Musée de Picardie in Amiens (Inv. M.P.3063.544).

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 13 May 1992, lot 51. Drouot, Paris, 20 October 1993, lot 70. Private collection, London (in 2010; bought, Blumka, New York, 12 May 2004); Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2010, lot 17. Sam Fogg, London, in 2014.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 1217 (companion piece).


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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