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Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire; plaquette) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire; plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 1966

Ivory

Height: 77 mm
Width: 52mm
Depth: 4 mm

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; lady with a hawk on her wrist; hunter with a spear; trees.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; incised trefoils in the gables.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France (?), 2nd third of the 14th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.

Object Condition
Two holes along the left edge (plugged). Vertical crack in the lower right part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Saint Petersburg; acquired by the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Rzemioslo artystyczne zachodniej europy od XI do XVI wieku, ze zbiorów panstwowego ermitazu w Sank Petersburgu [Western European artistic handicrafts from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries], exhibition catalogue, Malbork, The Malbork Castle Museum, 1994, no. 41, fig. 26.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 112.


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