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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly Love.

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Ivory

Height: 87mm (diameter)

Two compartments separated by a tree; two courting couples (meeting of lovers); couples conversing; fashionable dress; winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers.
Foliated corner terminals.

Koechlin Number: 1073

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Corner terminals chipped.

Provenance
Stroganoff collection, Rome (sometime before 1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 400, 401; II, no. 1073.

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