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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Old Testament.

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Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica

Inv. 148/AV

Ivory

Height: 114mm (diameter)

Samson and Delilah; Delilah cutting Samson's hair; two soldiers, one holding a halberd.
Foliated border with grapes. Crosshatched background.

Mallé 1969, Turin 1996 and Museum's opinion 2010: Germany, beginning of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Later inscription in red: '875' (original Museum number used until ca. 1950).

Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 87.

Provenance
Probably from the dukes of Savoy collections. Museo Egizio/Museo di Antichità, Turin (from at least 1832): given as part of an exchange of pieces with the Museo Civico in 1871.

Bibliography
Museo Civico di Torino. Sezione Arte Antica. Cento tavole riproducenti circa 700 oggetti (Turin, 1905), pl. c.x., 94.
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), pl. 171.
Il tesoro della città. Opere d'arte e oggetti preziosi da Palazzo Madama, ed. by S. Pettenati, G. Romano, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, 1996, no. 143.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 208.


Image

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