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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Southampton City Council Arts and Heritage

SOU 122.179

Bone

Height: 78mm
Width: 35mm
Depth: 3mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of the heart; tree.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

London 1987: English (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.

Object Condition
Missing: lower left corner.
Two holes on the left side (one caused the panel to break).

Provenance
Found during excavations at St Michael's House, Southampton, in 1972.

Bibliography
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander and Paul Binski, exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1987, no. 428.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 127.


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