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Writing tablet, 1 register, 2 arches across (plaquette) (Front)
Writing tablet, 1 register, 2 arches across (plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.


Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 41mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); man wearing a hat; lady holding a chaplet; sword.

Sprinz 1925: France, 14th century.
Frankfurt 1928: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
17th-century painting of the Virgin and Child.

Provenance
Collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen (no. 6149). Robert von Hirsch collection: sold, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 279.

Bibliography
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollernschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), no. 14, fig. 8.
Verzeichnis der im Städelschen Kunstinstitut ausgestellten Sigmaringer Sammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, 1928, no. 262.


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