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Dice cup

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Subject
Secular. Courly love.

Repository Institution
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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-1589

Ivory

Height: 123mm
Width: 64mm
Depth: 56mm

Couple playing dice in a tent; lady holding a dice cup; youth holding a dice cup. Seated man holding an open casket; standing lady holding a lamp; dog; door.

Koechlin Number: 1242

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

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Czartoryski collection (listed in the catalogue of the collection in 1865 in the Hôtel Lambert in Paris; handwritten catalogue 12309, pp. 204-205).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 451; II, no. 1242; III, pl. CCII.

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