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Writing tablets, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablets, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly Love. Hunting scene. Games.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.96 (Dalton 362)

Ivory

Height: 96mm
Width: 54mm
Depth: 4mm
Weight: 27.4g

Tablet 1
Register 1: Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a whip; trees.
Register 2: youth kneeling before a lady; lady crowning her lover with a chaplet.
Tablet 2
Register 1: Couple playing chess; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding two chess pieces in her left hand.
Register 2: couple seated on a bench; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a dog.
Border of dentils.


Koechlin Number: 1209; 1210

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, early 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Modern ink inscription, 'Ditticho che serviva forse di cartone ad un codice del 1300 di falconeria, 1848'.

Object Condition
Left wing cracked through both registers.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 362, pl. LXXXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 436, 437 and pp. 388, 436-438; II, no. 1209 and 1210.


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