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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 138mm
Width: 21mm
Depth: 6mm

Couple; man kneeling in prayer; hanging purse; lady holding a dog.
Foliated capital.

Koechlin Number: 1135

Koechlin 1924: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Point chipped.
Missing: head of dog.

Provenance
Collection of Emile Lévy, Paris: his sale, Paris, 14 December 1928, lot 11. Private collection, London: bought from Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, May 2002.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 417-418; II, no. 1135.

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