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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Angers, Musée-château de Villevêque

2003.1.401

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 120mm

Tournament in front of the Castle of Love; ladies and youths observing the jousting knights in armour from the castle battlements; knights on horseback; courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady chucking her lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; two heralds in trees blowing trumpets; shield.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.

Angers 2011: French (Paris), c. 1300
Museum's opinion: French (Paris), 1st half of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of David Duclaux (bought from the gallery Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris): bequest of his widow to the Museum in 2002.

Bibliography
N. Coutant et P. Le Nouëne, 'La présentation du legs Daniel Duclaux au musée-château de Villevêque, annexe du musée des Beaux-arts d'Angers', in Revue du Louvre (February 2004), pp. 25-27 (pp. 25-26).
Trésors de la collection Daniel Duclaux (Angers, 2011), no. 33.


Image

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