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Mirror case (valve de miroir) or circular lid (Back)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) or circular lid (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte

LMO 3.057

Ivory

Height: 88mm (diameter)

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgin of Humility); tree; stem of lilies; crown.
Crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved with concentric rings.

Object Condition
Centre part made of a different piece of ivory.

Bibliography
E. Heinemeyer, Mittelalterliches Kunstgewerbe: ein Wegweiser durch die Sammlung, exhibition catalogue, Oldenburg, Landesmuseum, 1970, no. 23, fig. 42.


Image

© Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg. Photograph by Sven Adelaide.

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