Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Galleria di Palazzo Cini a San Vio (on extended loan from the Cini heirs)
Courting couples (meeting of lovers); youth chucking his lover under the chin; offering of a chaplet (gift of a chaplet); youth kneeling before a lady; lady crowning her lover; winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers.
Pointed trefoils; border of dentils.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Shallow recess with a thin raised border all around (thinner and with projections along the inner edge on the right side). Piece of card reading '2862. Francia 2a metà XIV sec. Targhetta avorio Amore che lancia dardi a due coppie di innamorati', label with cancelled no. '2861'.
Object Condition
Chipped along the inner side of the border to the right.
Provenance
Maurice Kann collection: his sale, Paris, 5 December 1910, lot 216. Collection of Vittorio Cini (b. 1885, d. 1977), Venice: on extended loan to the Galleria di Palazzo Cini a San Vio since 1989, courtesy of Yilda Cini Guglielmi di Vulci, second daughter of Vittorio Cini.
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