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Writing tablet, 2 registers, 2 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 2 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

MRR 426

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 62mm
Depth: 4mm

Register 1: Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple holding hands; lady holding a chaplet. Lady covering her lover with her cloak.
Register 2: Seated couple; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a dog. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet.
Rosettes and medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.


Koechlin Number: 1218

Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, c. 1320-1340.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Labelled: 'A 59', 'no. 75', 'no. 885'.
Traces of a red wax seal.

Object Condition
Small chips to the edge.
Scratches in the background of the scenes.
Hole in the upper part so the tablets could be held together.

Provenance
Collection of Pierre Révoil, Lyon (no. 358); acquired from him by the Musée du Louvre in 1828.

Bibliography
M. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 885.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 59.
L. Courajod, La Collection Révoil du musée du Louvre (Caen, 1886), no. 358.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 75.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 437; II, no. 1218.
Le Gothique retrouvé, avant Viollet-le-Duc, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sully, 1979-1980, no. 219.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 176.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 228.


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