Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Romance. Courtly love.

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Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Inv. 1893.200

Ivory

Tristan and Iseult conversing; Iseult holding a dog; female figure holding a dog; Tristan feeding a hawk; male figure with a hawk on his wrist; king Mark in the tree; fountain reflecting king Mark's face.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.

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

Attribution
Unknown

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

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 105; acquired by the Museum at this sale.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 70 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 386, in relation to no. 1059.

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