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Casket (coffret) (Back)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (fittings)

Body, back
Courting couples (meeting of lovers); ldy holding a chaplet. Couple conversing; hooded figure crowning a kneeling lady with a chaplet. Couple embracing.
Incised trefoils.
Rest not seen.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Provenance
Sotheby's, Ashburnham sale, 26 June 1953, lot 50.

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