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Openwork panel, 1 register, 2 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 2 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

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Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum

M.3-1926

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 56mm

Seated man holding a lure (possibly a chicken leg); man with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a dog.
Tracery. Pinnacles.

London 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (?), 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Label pasted onto the back of the wooden box with inscription: 'Secular ivory panel. English, late 14th century. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926. Formerly in the Sir Ch. Robinson coll. Turned out May 1931, under suspicion of being a 19th century forgery. See correspondence with Miss M. H. Longhurst of the Victoria & Albert Museum'.

Object Condition
Missing: lower border of the panel.
Broken on the right side.

Comments
This plaque is now in a wooden box with glass front.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Charles Robinson. Collection of Frederick Leverton Harris (b. 1864, d. 1926), at least from 1923; his bequest to the Museum in 1926.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 139, p. 84.


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