Hawking scene. Lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady swinging a lure for hawks; hawk flying (?); tree; fashionable dress.
Tracery; row of blind arches in the spandrels; pointed trefoil in the gable.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
The right side seems to have been trimmed.
Comments
This writing tablet belongs to the same set as another one also formerly in the Kofler-Truniger collection (S.106 in the 1964 catalogue). See related objects.
Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).
Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.105, pp. 30-31.
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