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Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Romance.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 66mm

Courting couple in a tent (meeting of lovers); youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady with a hawk on her wrist; couple seated under a tree; offering of a chaplet (gift of a chaplet); hermit reading outside his cell; walled city.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1370.


Attribution
Unknown

Comments
This piece is very close to Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 71.283A.

Provenance
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.107, p. 31.


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