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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Games.

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Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André

MJAP-OA-767

Ivory

Height: 92mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 8mm

Couple playing chess; courting couple (meeting of lovers); man with his left hand around the pole supporting the tent; lady (queen) holding two chess pieces in her left hand; female servant holding a chaplet; youth wearing a tall pointed hat; youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.

Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Bertaux 1913: French, mid 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Modern labels including a blue and white label with handwritten inscription '515' (Bertaux no.). Pencil inscription: '65'.

Object Condition
Border chipped in places.

Comments
Bertaux, in 1913, suggested the scene could represent Huon de Bordeaux and the Saracen's daughter.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, lot 99.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 64 (E. Molinier).
É. Bertaux, Musée Jacquemart-André: Catalogue itinéraire (Paris, 1913), no. 515.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 384 (in relation to no. 1055).


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