Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Romance. Courtly love.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 90 mm

Fountain of Youth; old and young; cripples; lovers on the battlements; courting couples (meeting of lovers); city; cart; bathing
Pointed trefoils in the gables and spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.

Provenance
Found at Bodmin, Cornwall (according to a hand-written label on the reverse). Sotheby's, 12 July 1979, lot 31.

Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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