Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a flower.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round (flatter at the back than at the front).
Object Condition
Dark brown ivory (decayed).
Surfaces worn, cracks in the lower part, above the broken area. Small pieces missing.
Missing: lower part of the hair parter.
Comments
Koechlin may have omitted this object from his volume because it was until recently assumed to be made of wood.
Provenance
Collection of Victor Gay, Paris (d. 1887); collection of Mme V. Gay. Gift of a group of Friends of the Musée du Louvre, 1909.
Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Les tablettes à écrire d'ivoire au Moyen Âge', in Métiers d'art, no. 54-55, (December 1994-March 1995), fig. p. 31 (incorrectly claimed to be made of wood).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 133.
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