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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.111 (Dalton 387)

Ivory

Width: 91mm (diameter)
Depth: 2mm
Weight: 23.3g

Couple dancing in a garden; man dancing; musician with drum and whistle; dancing jester holding a bauble.
Crosshatched background.

Dalton 1909: Northern French or Flemish, late 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern French or Flemish, late 15th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror (?). Modern ink inscription '139'. Hole in the rim.

Object Condition
Diagonal crack on the left side.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890) (no. 139); bought from him by the museum in 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 387, Pl. XCI.

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