Courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady holding a dog. Knight kneeling before a lady who places a helm over his head; lady holding a sword. Youth kneeling before his lover. Offering of a flower; youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Pinnacles.
Koechlin 1906 and 1924: France, late 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Holes for the lost fittings.
Provenance
Charles Stein collection. Collection of Victor Martin Le Roy, Neuilly-sur-Seine (at least 1906-1924).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 19, pl. X.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 380, 476, 479, 482, 488; II, no. 1271; III, pl. CCXIII.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by P. Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 64.
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