Game of hot cockles (jeu de haute coquille, or la main chaude); courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple kissing; old man.
Pointed trefoils.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Randall 1997: French (Paris), 1340-1360.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: French (Paris), circa. 1350-1360.
Robinson 2008: French (Paris), 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Hole in the upper left corner.
Provenance
Collection of A. W. Franks (b. 1826, d. 1897); donated by him to the British Museum in 1888.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 363, Pl. LXXXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 438; II, no. 1198.
R. H. Randall Jr., 'Games on a Medieval Ivory', in Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 56 (1997), pp. 3-9 (pp. 6-7, fig. 9).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 424, fig. 177c.
J. Robinson, Masterpieces of Medieval Art (London, 2008), p. 227.
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