Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny
Offering of the heart; meeting of lovers (courting couples); offering of a flower.
Handle: rose with stem; shield hanging from a tree (reverse).
Crosshatched background.
Koechlin 1924: France, early 16th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st quarter of the 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Chip with piece missing in upper-middle.
Comments
Modern mirror.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 272); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny in 1948, renewed by arrêté of 10 July 1986.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 272.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 67.
E. Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carolingienne à la Renaissance (Paris, 1872-1875), IV, p. 137, fig.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 153.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 414; II, no. 1115bis.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 273.
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