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Gravoir (hair parter) (Front, detail)

Gravoir (hair parter) (Front, detail)
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Back, detail

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum

M.1-1919

Ivory

Height: 321mm
Width: 105mm
Depth: 28mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady with plaited hair.
Foliated capital.

London 1923: Italian (?), 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Italian (?), c. 1400 (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Black substance used for the eyes.

Reverse
Carved in the round. Label with handwritten inscription in ink: 'Presented by: Rv. Hon. F. Leverton Harris, m.a., Gonville & Caius College, May 1919'.

Object Condition
Very worn.

Comments
This piece is very long for a gravoir.

Provenance
Collection of Rev. Hon. Frederick Leverton Harris (b. 1864, d. 1926): presented by him to the Museum in 1919.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 150, p. 88.


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