Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
thewalters.org

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.95

Ivory

Height: 58mm
Width: 57mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers).
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Large hole in the centre; hole in each corner terminal. Damaged (must have been buried).
Missing: right arm of the youth.

Comments
Unusually small.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters from Henry Daguerre in Paris in 1924; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 321.

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