Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.113 (Dalton 493)

Ivory

Height: 109mm diameter
Width: 14 mm
Weight: 147.9 g

Seated man and woman playing musical instruments; jester holding a bauble.
Crosshatched background; brickwork; roped border.

Museum's opinion 2013: early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
This piece is made of several pieces of ivory.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); bought from him by the museum in 1856.

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