Inv. M.P.3063.544
Register 1: Meeting of lovers (courting couples); lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet. Courting couple; youth with a hawk on his wrist; youth feeding a hawk; lady with a hawk on her wrist; lady feeding a hawk.
Register 2: couple playing chess in a tent; man with his left hand around the pole supporting the tent. Youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady holding a dog.
Migeon 1906: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: Northern France, late 13th or early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the upper border (broke as a result of a drilled hole).
Diagonal cracks in the upper left and lower left corners. Lower left corner stained.
Comments
The companion piece to this writing tablet was in a private collection in London in 2010 (see related object).
Provenance
Collection Albert Maignan (b. 1845, d. 1908); bequeathed by Maignan to the museum in 1908, but entered the collections in 1927.
Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'La Collection Albert Maignan ', in Les Arts 59 (Nov. 1906), pp. 3-16 (p. 9).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 437; II, no. 1217.
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