Cl. 1808
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish (?), end of 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Provenance
Bought in 1849 from Evans.
Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1095.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 527; II, no. 1318.
Ivoires: de l'Orient ancien aux temps modernes, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, fig. 168.
De l'écrin au cercueil: essai sur les contenants au Moyen Âge, ed. by D. James-Raoul and C. Thomasset (Paris, 2007), ill. VI.
P. Nuttall, 'The Bargello gamesboard: a north-south hybrid', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CLII, no. 1292 (November 2010), pp. 716-722 (p. 722, n. 43).
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