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			SubjectSecular. Courtly love.
 
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			 Paris, Musée du Louvre MRR 83  
                      
		      
                      
		      
                      
		      
                      
                      
		      
			 Bone;metal (modern fittings);painted paper or parchment (checkered background);brown varnish (?);wood Height: 110mm (max); 34mm (lid ivories); 44mm (side ivories)Width: 148mm (max); 52mm (lid ivories); 33mm (side ivories)
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			 LidRegister 1: Meeting of lovers (courting couples); ladies wearing pendant sleeves, and a horned headdress (bourrelet). Youth offering his lover a basket of flowers. Lady playing a portable organ; man playing the harp.
 Register 2: Lady with a rod; youth with a purse and sceptre; hawk. Lady making a chaplet; offering of a flower.
 Body, frontLady holding a flower. Youth holding a flower.End, rightLady removing her belt. Youth with a ewer and basin.
 Body, back
 Lady playing a portable organ. Youth playing a harp. Youth playing a double flute.
 End, left
 Lady with a hawk on her wrist. Youth holding a basket and a horn for a lure, in the shape of a raptor's leg.
 
 Koechlin Number: 1314  
                      
		      
			   Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 15th century.Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Burgundy?), c. 1430-1460.
 
 
		        
		      
		      
			
			  AttributionUnknown
 
			  Polychromy - GildingFaint traces of gilding and polychromy.
 
			  Object ConditionIvory panels mounted on a modern wooden casket. All metalwork, including parts with gilt decoration, is also modern.
 On bottom: labelled '952', 'A. 78', 'N 994', '80'.
 Slots inside the wooden casket for tokens.
 
			  CommentsThe casket features in a still life painted in 1868 by Blaise-Alexandre Desgoffe (Parke-Bernet, 25-26 February 1944, lot 150).
 
			  ProvenanceCollection of Pierre Révoil, Lyon; acquired from him by the musée du Louvre in 1828.
 
			  BibliographyM. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 952.
 A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 78.
 E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 133.
 J. von Schlosser, Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig, in Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, 20 (1899), no. 84.
 R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 524, 525, II, no. 1314, III, pl. CCXXVIII.
 D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 245.
 
 
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