Gothic Ivories Project | Lid (fragment of a casket), 4 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Lid (fragment of a casket), 4 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Lid (fragment of a casket), 4 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Ivory

Height: 114mm
Width: 155mm

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; hanging purse. Figures wearing chaplets pierced with small holes.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 1274

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Object Condition
Holes for the missing fittings and handle.
Discolouration.

Provenance
Collection of Jeffery Whitehead: sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1906, lot 107, pl. 1.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 1274.

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