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Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Romance. Courtly love.

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Niort, Musée Bernard d'Agesci

Inv. 914.1.143

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 45mm

Gawain on the perilous bed; bed on wheels; lion; spears and swords falling from the sky; the three maidens at the Château Merveil.
Rounded trefoils and pointed trefoils; arches lined with a border of dentils.


Koechlin Number: 1201

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France (Paris), 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Piet-Lataudrie (d. 1909); Piet-Lataudrie bequest to the Museum in 1914.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'La Collection de M. Piet-Lataudrie', in Les Arts (August 1909), p. 6.
E. Breuillac, Inventaire des objets légués au Musée de Niort par M. et Mme Piet-Lataudrie (Niort, 1916), p. 22, no. 379.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 439, 491; II, no. 1201.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Allegory and Romance on a Mediaeval French Marriage Casket', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948), pp. 112-142 (p. 133, pl. 30d).
Entry on Alienor.org, Conseil des Musées: http://www.alienor.org/alienorweb/public/fiche_objet.asp?__TableId=32&__GroupId=286&__FormGroupId=37&__NoFiche=18127(accessed January 2013)


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