Gothic Ivories Project | Lid, 2 registers (fragment of a box; boîte) (Lid)

Lid, 2 registers (fragment of a box; boîte) (Lid)

Lid, 2 registers (fragment of a box; boîte) (Lid)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
www.museenkoeln.de

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 24

Bone

Height: 175mm
Width: 150mm

Register 1: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree surrounded by a woven fence; lady holding a lure for hawks (?); lady wearing a conical hennin.
Register 2: female musician playing the harp; lady wearing a conical hennin; fountain; male musician playing the flute.
Foliated border; crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 1322

Witte 1912: Italy, c. 1400.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Bologna (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), pl. 85, p. 95, no. 12.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 527; II, no. 1322.

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