Inv. F 1337
Meeting of lovers (courting couples); youth kneeling before a lady; couple conversing; youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth holding a chaplet; lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet.
Four compartments formed by the branches of a tree dividing in the centre.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Berlin 1987: France (?), early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), 1st third of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Object Condition
Missing: ears of the upper left monster; lower part of the body of the lower right monster; part of the left edge at the back (35mm).
Worn.
Provenance
Collection of Prof. Robert Forrer, Strasbourg; collection of Albert Figdor, Vienna; bought by the Museum on 15 August 1935.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 382; II, p. 373, no. 1013.
...und um Berlin herum. 750 Jahre europäische Kulturgeschichte im Kunstgewerbemuseum, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1987, p. 10.
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