Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablets, 1 register, 3 arches across (tablettes à écrire; plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Writing tablets, 1 register, 3 arches across (tablettes à écrire; plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Writing tablets, 1 register, 3 arches across (tablettes à écrire; plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Games. Courtly love.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 94mm
Width: 57mm (each)

Tablet 1: Castle of Love (?); courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and knight in armour at the gate of a castle; horse; old man (hermit?).
Tablet 2: Game of frog in the middle (jeu de la grenouille); courting couples; fashionable dress; trees.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 1177-1178

Koechlin 1906 and 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Victor Martin Le Roy, Neuilly-sur-Seine (at least 1906-1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 39-40, pl. XIX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 438, 439, 442; II, no. 1177-1178.

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