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Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene. Courtly love.

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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. Pl.O. 376

Ivory

Height: 89mm
Width: 56mm

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; lady holding whip; youth with a hawk on his wrist; trees.
Border of dentils.


Koechlin Number: 1191

Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Inscription with the former inventory number (KP 783) and the current one.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel. Deep vertical cracks.

Provenance
Acquired in 1858 in Trent by the Museum.

Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 60.
W. Lübke, Die Kunst des Mittelalters (Stuttgart, 1901), fig. 399.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 639.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), no. 650, p.48.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 437; II, no. 1191.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), p. 246, no. 223.


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