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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 106mm
Width: 58mm

Meeting of lovers (courting couple); lady holding a rabbit; maid; tree; fashionable dress.
Tracery; row of blind arches in the spandrels; pointed trefoil in the gable.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
The left side seems to have been trimmed.

Comments
This writing tablet belongs to the same set as another one also formerly in the Kofler-Truniger collection (S.105 in the 1964 catalogue). See related objects.

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.106, pp. 30-31 (relation to no. S.105).


Image

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