Courting couples (meeting of lovers); seated couple conversing; lady holding a chaplet. Standing couple conversing; youth holding a pair of gloves. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet. Youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth holding a chaplet.
Four compartments formed by the branches of trees in the centre and on the sides.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1330-1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Central hole for suspension.
Provenance
Collection of G. Stroganoff, Rome. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 382; II, no. 1010.
Katalog Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue (Basel, 1951), no. 24.
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.122, p. 33.
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