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

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

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

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Front

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 1838

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 71mm
Depth: 6mm

Couple playing musical instruments; trees; musical instrument with animal head.
Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 1170

Labarte 1847: France, 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century. Disconcerted by the drilled pupils and unusual iconography.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
On the back, inscription: 'EX DONO ANNO 1749' and number '974'. Flat with an incised border. Some crosshatching.

Comments
This object forms a pair with another writing tablet, also in the Musée de Cluny (Cl. 1837, see related object).

Provenance
Debruge-Duménil collection, Paris: sold, Paris, January-March 1849, lot 150, to the Museum.

Bibliography
J. Labarte, Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge-Duménil (Paris, 1847), no. 150, p. 455.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1086.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 436; II, no. 1170; III, pl. CXCV.

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