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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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Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Pl 36:98 (lost)

Ivory

Height: 60mm
Width: 32mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers).
Painted rounded trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 1185

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Jülich 2007: France, 1st half of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Provenance
Collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum; stolen between May and June 1945 from the castle of Rauhenzell im Allgäu where the collections of the museum had been deposited.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 436; II, no. 1185; III, pl. CXCVIII.
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. V5.


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