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Portable writing case (écritoire portatif) (Side 1)

Portable writing case (écritoire portatif) (Side 1)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;string

Height: 105mm

Side 1: Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple conversing; youth with a hawk on his wrist; Lady holding a dog.
Lid: hybrid.
Side 2: not seen.
Lid: hybrid.
Top: not seen.
Rosettes in the spandrels.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 12 April 1985, lot 264.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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