Register 1: couple seated on the ground outside a castle, watched by a wild man and a wild woman (?); tree.
Register 2: courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple seated on the ground outside a castle; couple making a wreath by a flowery bush; youth plucking flowers from a tree; standing man.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red.
Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular.
Provenance
Collection of Karl Thewalt, Cologne (at least 1900-1903): his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 4-14 November 1903, lot 595, pl. 10. Collection of Félix Doistau (b. 1846, d. 1936), Paris (before 1924). Nègre collection, Paris: his sale, Drouot, Paris, 14-15 March 1932, lot 17 (?).
Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 185.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), pp. 436, 443; II, no. 1214; III, pl. CC.
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