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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. 9191

Ivory

Height: 90mm (diameter)
Width: 90mm

Courting couples (meeting of lovers); winged God of Love throwing arrows at lovers; lady chucking her kneeling lover under the chin; youth chucking his lover under the chin.
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.

Koechlin Number: 1071

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Avignon 2004: France, c. 1320.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd quarter of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: two lower corner terminals.

Provenance
Bought in 1871 from Eugène Piot.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1073.
R. Koechlin, 'Le Dieu d'Amour', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 (1921), p. 281.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 400, 402; II, no. 1071; III, CLXXXIII.
F. Arquié-Bruley, 'Un fonds iconographique', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France (1984), p. 195.
Le Triomphe de l'amour: Eros en guerre. Une Histoire amoureuse de l'humanité, ed. by E. Duperray, exhibition catalogue, Avignon, Musée Pétrarque, 2004, no. 18, p. 82.

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