Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 1 register, 4 arches across (coffret; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 1 register, 4 arches across (coffret; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 1 register, 4 arches across (coffret; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 98mm
Width: 181mm

Courting couples (meeting of lovers); offering of the heart; youth kneeling before his lover. Youth with a hawk on his wrist; youth holding a pair of gloves; trees. Lady holding a dog. Couple embracing; purse (?).

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: painted trefoils in the spandrels.

Object Condition
Traces of fittings (handle).

Provenance
Collection of Jeffery Whitehead: his sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1906, lot 108.

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