Gothic Ivories Project | Stylus or hair parter (gravoir) (Front, detail)

Stylus or hair parter (gravoir) (Front, detail)

Stylus or hair parter (gravoir) (Front, detail)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
wcma.williams.edu

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Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art

78.2.1

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 13mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth kneeling before his lover.

Randall 1993: French, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Figures worn from use. Break in the man's left arm. Tapered end of the shaft broken.

Provenance
Demotte collection, early 20th century. Collection of John Davis Hatch Jr., Lenox (Massachusetts)(bought from Leopold Blumka, New York): gift of John Davis Hatch, Jr. in 1978.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 178.

Image

© Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Photography: Jim Gipe - Pivot Media and Stephen Petegorsky.
Credit Line: 78.2.1 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Gift of John Davis Hatch V.

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