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Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (belt pendant?) (Front)
Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (belt pendant?) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Niort, Musée Bernard d'Agesci

Inv. 914.1.139

Ivory;metal (flower-headed nail)

Height: 60mm
Width: 34mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (background)

Object Condition
Four holes. One is filled with a metal flower.
Broken around some of the holes.

Comments
The lower border is recessed.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Piet-Lataudrie (d. 1909); Piet-Lataudrie bequest to the Museum in 1914.

Bibliography
Entry on Alienor.org, Conseil des Musées: http://www.alienor.org/alienorweb/public/fiche_objet.asp?__TableId=32&__GroupId=286&__FormGroupId=37&__NoFiche=17042 (accessed June 2012)


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© Musée Bernard d'Agesci, Communauté d'Agglomération de Niort.

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