Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles; coffret) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 170mm

Couple playing chess; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady holding two chess pieces in her left hand; trees. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; male and female onlookers.
Rosettes.

Koechlin Number: 1277bis

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Holes for missing fittings.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv. 17.190.250); de-accessioned.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 479; II, no. 1277bis.

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