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Hair parter (gravoir) (Side, detail)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
www.museohorne.it

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Florence, Museo Horne

Inv. 829

Ivory

Height: 240 mm

Meeting of lovers (courting couple); youth kneeling before a lady; lady chucking her lover under the chin.
Foliated decoration (oak leaves?); capital.

Catalogo 1921: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Herbert Horne (b. 1864, d. 1916), Florence; the museum opens to the public in 1921.

Bibliography
Catalogo illustrato della Fondazione Horne (Florence, 1921), no. 829, p. 17.
S. Di Marco, A. Nesi, E. Nardinocchi, Con gli occhi di... Bardini, Horne, Stibbert: tre musei per tre collezionisti (Florence, 2009), p. 51.

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