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

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 15317

Ivory

Height: 88mm (diameter)
Depth: 10mm

Ladies observing courting couples from a balcony; lady holding gloves and with a hawk on her wrist; lady playing a musical instrument (portable organ). Courting couples (meeting of lovers); youth kneeling before his lover; couple embracing; lady holding a dog; trees.
No corner terminals.

Koechlin Number: 1017

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9688).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 381, 401; II, no. 1017.

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