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Casket with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Open)

Casket with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Open)

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Body, front

Body, back

End, right

End, left

Lid

Bottom

Links

Subject
Secular. Courtly Love.

Repository Institution
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Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art

50.303

Ivory;metal (later fittings, hinges and lock)

Height: 63mm
Width: 139mm
Depth: 80mm

Lid
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple embracing; lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; couple embracing; youth chucking his lover under the chin.
Body, front
Youth with a hawk on his wrist. Couple holding the lock; crouching man. Lady holding a chaplet.
End, right
Lady and youth on horseback; youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady holding a whip; hunter with a spear.
Body, back
Lady holding a chaplet. Hawking party; lady and youth hawking on horseback; lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth with a hawk on his wrist; hunter with a spear. Youth with a hawk on his wrist.
End, left
Couple playing chess; trees.
Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 1264

Koechlin 1912 and 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 1330-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.
Blue and white label on the underside with handwritten inscription: '28'.

Provenance
Collection of Caspar and Stephan Bourgeois, art dealers, Cologne: sold, Lempertz, Cologne, 19-27 October 1904, lot 1056. Collection of Emile Baboin, Lyon. Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1950 thanks to the Edward Drummond Libbey Endowment.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 28.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 388, 479-481, 484; II, no. 1264.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 182.

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