Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny
Courting couple (meeting of lovers).
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 14th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Comments
Molinier (1896) argued the panel to be a fragment of a casket.
Provenance
Collection of Baron Jean-Charles Davillier; bequest of J.-C. Davillier to the Museum in 1883; on loan to the Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge since 1948, renewed by arrêté of 10 July 1986.
Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Donation du baron Charles Davillier. Catalogue des objets exposés au musée du Louvre (Paris, 1885), no. 53.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 117.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 279.
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