Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth kneeling before his lover; lady holding a dog (?).
Foliated capital.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: point of the hair parter.
Provenance
Jubinal and Saint-Albin collection. Mrs Georges Dury collection in Paris. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).
Bibliography
V. Gay, Glossaire archéologique du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, I (Paris, 1887-1928), p. 794.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 1134bis, p. 408.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.49, p. 20.
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