Four compartments formed by the branches of trees in the centre and on the sides.
Register 1: Meeting of lovers (courting couples); lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; youth chucking his lover under the chin.
Register 2: couple playing chess; Couple making a wreath; youth and lady plucking flowers from a flowery bush.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Paris 1900: 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
In 2008: traces of white ink inscription. White label with the inscription: 'MA 124 124'.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the piece.
Hole in the lower right corner terminal.
Provenance
Collection of Charles Gillot, Paris (b. 1853, d. 1903); since November 11, 1897 at Bach, 9 rue de Chateaudun in Paris. Indexed in the accounting book of Charles Gillot on November 10, 1897. Thence by descent until March 2008. Christie's, Paris, 4-5 March 2008, lot 190. Blumka Gallery, in 2012 ('Collecting Treasures of the Past VII', exhibition catalogue, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-10 February 2012, New York, no. 12).
Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, no. 181.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 381, 382, 388; II, no. 1012.
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