Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Inv. 328

Ivory

Height: 83mm (diameter)
Depth: 7mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a rose (gift of the rose); lady wearing pendant sleeves; trees; standing youth and lady.
Crosshatched background. Masks in the spandrels.

Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: Italian, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.

Object Condition
Possibly missing four corner terminals.
Central hole in the upper part of the piece.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Robert Forrer, Strasbourg (in 1924). In the Museo Lázaro Galdiano by 1949.

Bibliography
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).

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