Cl. 403
Register 1: winged God of Love, on a throne decorated with lions, throwing arrows at lovers; couple kneeling in prayer.
Register 2: lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; youth chucking his lover under the chin; trees.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 1st half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.
Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1071.
R. Koechlin, Les Ateliers parisiens d'ivoiriers, Commission du Vieux Paris, Procès verbaux (1918), pl. face p. 40.
R. Koechlin, 'Le Dieu d'Amour', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 (1921), p. 287.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 400, 401, 402; II, no. 1077; III, pl. CLXXXIV.
F. Arquié-Bruley, 'Un précurseur: le comte de Saint-Morys (1772-1817), collectionneur d'Antiquités nationales' in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (October 1980), pp. 109-118, no. 112.
M. Müller, Minnebilder. Französische Minnedarstellungen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts (Cologne, 1996), fig. 30.
M. Kauffmann, 'Satire, Pictorial Genre and the Illustrations in BN fr. 146', in Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS français 146, ed. by M. Bent and A. Wathey (Oxford, 1998), pp. 285-305 (p. 305).
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