Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablets, 1 register, 2 arches across (tablettes à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; plaquettes) (Back)

Writing tablets, 1 register, 2 arches across (tablettes à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; plaquettes) (Back)

Writing tablets, 1 register, 2 arches across (tablettes à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; plaquettes) (Back)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 12342a-Cl. 12342b

Ivory;metal (later hinges)

Height: 87mm
Width: 52mm

Tablet 1: Courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady holding a dog; couple embracing; tree.
Tablet 2: lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet.
Trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 1167-1168

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Added hinges on either side of each tablet.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Circular recess on the reverse of tablet 1.

Provenance
Bought on 30 November 1890.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 436; II, no. 1167-1168.

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