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

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

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

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 61mm

Hawking party; courting couples (meeting of lovers); ladies and youth hawking on horseback; lady swinging a lure for hawks; lady with a hawk on her wrist; bird in a tree; dog running; hunter on foot drinking from a small barrel-shaped flask; hares running into their holes; trees.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels and gables.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1370 (from the same workshop as S.111 and S.112 in this catalogue).

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Hole in the central gable.

Provenance
Collection of Hermann Sax, Vienna: Sax sale, Vienna, Miethke, 4 December 1893, lot 128. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.109, p. 31.

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