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Casket (coffret) (Body, front)

Casket (coffret) (Body, front)
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Lid

Body, front

End, left

End, right

Body, back; Lid

Lid

Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

LP 615

Ivory;silver (later fittings)

Height: 48mm
Width: 144mm (lid); 141mm (side)
Depth: 89mm (lid); 81mm (side)

Lid
Courting couples (meeting of lovers); youth holding his lover's left hand. Couple embracing. Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet. Youth chucking his lover under the chin.
Body, front
Youth with a hawk on his wrist. Courting couples; lion. Standing lady.
End, left
Lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; trees.
End, right
Youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a flower; youth chucking his lover under the chin; trees.
Body, back
Two servants; servant holding a lance. Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth with a hawk on his wrist; trees. Hunter blowing a horn.


Koechlin Number: 1261

Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), c. 1300-1320.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Repair with putty to right of the crowning of the lover.
Modern silverwork, showing grooves for original ironwork.
Labelled on the bottom: 'Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, 1937' (although the casket did not appear in this exhibition).

Provenance
Menissier collection, Paris. Acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1834.

Bibliography
M. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 908.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 76.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 685 ('58.247).
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 70.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 479, 480, 481; II, no. 1261; III, pl. CCXIII-CCXIV.
Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Palais national des arts (Paris, 1937).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 131.


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