Courting couples (meeting of lovers); youth kneeling before a lady; lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth chucking his lover under the chin; winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers; birds.
Four compartments formed by the branches of a tree dividing in the centre.
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.
Molinier 1890: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1906 and Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (background)
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 103. Martin Le Roy collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine (at least from 1906 to 1924).
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 68 (E. Molinier).
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie (Paris, 1896), I: Les Ivoires, p. 196.
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 34, pl. XVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 401; II, no. 1075.
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