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Mirror case, frame of 4 lobes (valve de miroir; quatre-feuilles; quatrefoil) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 4 lobes (valve de miroir; quatre-feuilles; quatrefoil) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-1274

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 83mm

Crucifixion; Virgin and one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and soldiers.
Foliated corner terminals. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 1116bis

Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.
Egbert 1929: Italy, early 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), beginning of 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Edges on the back have been filed or thinned.
Blue and white label with ink inscription: '5476'. Label with ink inscription: 'MNK.XIII V.385'.

Object Condition
Two vertical cracks, one going nearly all the way through.

Provenance
Private collection, Cologne; acquired for the Czartoryski collection after 1891.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 412; II, no. 1116bis; III, pl. CLXXXVIII.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 203, fig. 66].


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