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Mirror case, frame of 7 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 7 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum; on loan from the Neutelings Foundation

Inv. 10-5424

Ivory

Height: 84mm (diameter)

Courting couples (meeting of lovers); youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady holding a dog; lady holding an object (flower?); buttoned sleeves; bird in a tree.
Two compartments separated by a tree. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, c. 1350-70.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Two central holes in the upper part of the piece (probably for later hanging). Vertical crack issuing from one of the holes.

Provenance
Willem Neutelings-Heuts collection, Brasschaat (bought in January 1983); on loan from the Neutelings Foundation to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Inv. BK-C-1995-2) from 1995 to 2010; on loan from the Neutelings Foundation to the Bonnefantenmuseum since 2010.

Bibliography
H. van Os, Een engel in de koffer: Willem Neutelings en zijn verzameling (Baarn, 1996), p. 30, fig. 39.
Een hogere werkelijkheid, Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, ed. by F. Scholten and G. de Werd, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Museum Kurhaus Kleef, 2004, no. 59.


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