Inv. WA2013.1.3
Couple playing chess (courting couple); lady holding two chess pieces in her left hand; three onlookers including a lady holding a dog and a youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Wellby 2009: France, c. 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets or the lid of a weights and scale box.
Object Condition
Cracked at the centre. Pierced at the top for suspension. Part of the upper and right borders chipped.
Provenance
Collection of Émile Lévy, Paris: sale, Paris, 14 December 1928, lot 16. Sale, Berlin, 12 October 1935, lot 228, pl. 36. Collection of Michael Sinclair Wellby (b. 1928, d. 2012): his bequest to the Museum in 2013.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 438; II, no. 1196.
M. Wellby, The Wellby Collection (unpublished, 2009), no. 2b, crossed out to be changed to 3.
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