Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

Repository Institution
www.musees-haute-normandie.fr

To purchase an image
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Rouen, Musée Départemental des Antiquités de la Seine-Maritime

Inv. 722

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 63mm

Register 1: Couple playing chess; man with his left hand around the pole supporting the tent; lady holding a dog; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding two chess pieces in her left hand.
Register 2: Hawking party; lady and youth on horseback; lady with a whip; youth with a hawk on his wrist; hunter on foot with a hawk on his wrist; tree.
Border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 1211

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Joconde 2010: 1st half 14th century.
Danielle Gaborit-Chopin's opinion 2010: France, last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Delange collection. Acquired by the museum in 1852.

Bibliography
J. Vernier, Musée des Antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure: guide du visiteur (Rouen, 1923), p. 27.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 388, 436-438; II, no. 1211.
Joconde, catalogue collectif des collections des musées de France: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm

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