Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; coffret) (Front)

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Secular. Courtly love.

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Ivory

Height: 111mm
Width: 62mm

Register 1: courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady crowning her kneeling lover; couple conversing;
Register 2: couple conversing; couple standing under a tree; lady holding a squirrel.
Border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 1278

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: left part of the panel.
Edges chipped. Holes for missing fittings.

Comments
This panel probably was originally a part of the lid of a casket.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: sold, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 485 (purchased by Mannheim).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 479, 482; II, no. 1278.

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