Game of hot cockles (jeu de haute coquille); courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady chucking her lover under the chin.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1906 and 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Two later holes in the upper corners and one in the centre in the lower part of the panel.
Comments
This tablet is part of the same set as Koechlin 1176 (see related objects).
Provenance
Pichon collection (1897 catalogue, no. 923); collection of Martin Le Roy Neuilly-sur-Seine (at least until 1924).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 38, pl. XIX.
O. Pelka, Elfenbein (Berlin, 1920), p. 209.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 438; II, no. 1175.
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