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Panel (fragment of a casket), 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Romance.

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London, The British Museum

1958,0402.1

Ivory

Height: 70mm
Width: 96mm
Depth: 4mm
Weight: 32.3g

Scene from the Romance of the Châtelaine de Vergi. Ladies dancing a carole; two musicians blowing trumpets.

Detroit 1997: French (Paris), 1320-1340.
Museum's opinion 2011: French (Paris), 1320-1340.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Pierced with holes around the edge, for missing mounts.

Comments
Part of the same casket as another panel in the British Museum collection, 1958,0402.2.

Provenance
Purchased by C. A. Willoughby through Messers Park, Nelson and Dennes; 1958, bequeathed to the British Museum.

Bibliography
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, fig. 63a, p. 244.


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