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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire; plaquette) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire; plaquette) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

MRR 425

Ivory

Height: 81mm
Width: 49mm
Depth: 4mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady giving a wreath to her lover; lady with a hawk on her wrist; female servant; tree.
Pointed trefoil in the gable. Tracery in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 1189

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax. Labelled: 'Chefs d'oeuvre / de l'art français / 1937 / Louvre / 92 / Révoil 357', 'N. 1050', 'cat. 92', 'no. 886', 'A 58'.

Object Condition
Modern hole in the upper part.
Hole through the side of the upper edge.

Provenance
Collection of Pierre Révoil, Lyon (no. 357); acquired from him by the Museum in 1828; exhibited at the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée Cluny, Paris, from 1948 to 1977; since 1977 returned to the Musée du Louvre.

Bibliography
M. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 886.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 58.
L. Courajod, La Collection Révoil du musée du Louvre (Caen, 1886), no. 357.
E. Molinier, Catalogue des ivoires. Musée national du Louvre (Paris, 1896), no. 92.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 436; II, no. 1189.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 212.


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