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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Games. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art

38.4.7

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 92mm

Couple playing chess; courting couple (meeting of lovers); man with his left hand around the pole supporting the tent; lady holding two chess pieces in her left hand; female servant holding a chaplet; youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.

Museum's opinion 2012: French, 19th-century copy of a 14th-century piece.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Label with pencil inscription: '43 [...] 21505 [or 21595]'.

Object Condition
Several vertical cracks.

Comments
This piece is a 19th-century copy of a mirror case in the Musée du Louvre (OA 117).

Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Edwin Holland Blashfield, 1938.

Image

© Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Photography: Jim Gipe - Pivot Media and Stephen Petegorsky.
Credit Line: 38.4.7 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Gift of Mrs. Edwin Howland Blashfield.

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