Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Games. Courtly Love.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 105 mm
Width: 62 mm

Game of frog in the middle (jeu de la grenouille); courting couples (meeting of lovers); fashionable dress; tree.
Row of blind arches; tracery; pointed trefoil.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Label with inscription: 'jeu de la grenouille voir glossaire Gay, tome 2, fg 151'.
Collection label with no. '63'.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Broken into two pieces which have been glued back together.

Provenance
Collection of Alphonse de Rothschild (no. 63); private collection, Paris; sale, Drouot, Paris, 6 June 2014, lot 22.

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