Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (writing tablet?), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (writing tablet?), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (writing tablet?), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Romance. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 8531 (almost completely destroyed)

Ivory

Height: 91mm
Width: 56mm

Couple conversing at the gate of a castle or city; knight; wild man; horse.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Dokumentation 2006: France, beginning of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: one fragment has survived.

Provenance
Figdor collection, Vienna; acquired by the Museum in 1935; undocumented after 7 April 1945; one fragment returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.

Bibliography
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 244.

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