Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny
		      
                      
		      
			 
                      
		      
                      
		      
                      
		      
                    
		    Couple in bed; curtains around the bed; old woman holding a stick (?).
Crosshatched background.
		      
                      
                      
		      
                    
		    Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
		      
		     
                      
		    
		      
		      
			
			  Attribution
			  Unknown
			
		      
		      
		      
                      
		      
                      
                      
		      
			
			  Reverse
			  Flat. 
Ink inscription on paper: 'f..li.. [fabliau?] du comte Orry / XIVe siècle'.
Labelled: 'A. 75'.
			
		      
                      
                      
		      
			
			  Object Condition
			  Fragmented ridge along the edge of the object.
			
		      
                      
                      
		      
			
			  Comments
			  This scene may represent an episode from the fable of count Ory, who entered a convent in disguise to seduce young novices..
			
		      
                      
                      
		      
			
			  Provenance
			  Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 264); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot to the Museum in 1856; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny since 1948, renewed by arrêté of 10 July 1986.
			
		      
                      
                      
		      
			
			  Bibliography
			  A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 264.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 75.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 69.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 268.
			
		      
		     
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