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Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Rome, Vatican, Musei Vaticani

Inv. 65103

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 40mm
Depth: 4mm
Weight: 30.8g

Winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers; youth with an arrow in his chest; youth with a hawk on his wrist; couple embracing; sword; hanging purse.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils.


Koechlin Number: 1204

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


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was certainly part of a set of writing tablets. Traces of glue.

Provenance
Acquired before 1876.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 875 ('58.198) and Appendix, p. 343.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), pl. XVII, no. 4.
A. Rossi, 'Les Ivoires gothiques français du Vatican', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1905, I, p. 402.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 441; II, no. 1204.


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