Gothic Ivories Project | Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)

Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Side 1: Courting couples (meeting of lovers); ladies and youth conversing; tree; garden.
Side 2: not seen.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of painted foliated decoration and scrolls on the background.

Provenance
Collection of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London.

Image

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