Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette ajourée) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Games. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Orléans, Musée historique et archéologique de l'Orléanais

A.6968

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 51mm
Depth: 5mm

Game of frog in the middle (jeu de la grenouille); courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; fashionable dress; hanging purse; trees.
Border of dentils; tracery; pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 1199

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Paris (?), mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed with a raised border. Smooth.Ink inscription: 'A/1199', '1199'.

Object Condition
Missing: parts of the trees in the background.

Provenance
Acquired by the museum before June 1940.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 439; II, no. 1199.

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