Gothic Ivories Project | Comb (peigne) (Side 2)

Comb (peigne) (Side 2)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 167mm

Side 1: couples dancing (?; two female dancers holding the hood of the male dancers); queen; tree; two pigs.
Side 2: Meeting of lovers (courting couples)(?); couples conversing or couples arguing (?); youth holding a scroll; offering of a chaplet (wreath); dog; youth holding a lady by the arm; trees.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Northern Italy (Venice?), c. 1380.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Three thick teeth seem to have broken and been repaired.

Provenance
Finaly collection, Florence. 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.127, pp. 34-35.

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