A: Garden of Love; courting couples (meeting of lovers); male musician playing the harp; fountain.
B: Garden of Love; courting couples (meeting of lovers); male musician playing the recorder; trees; dog.
Crosshatched background.
Price-Wilkin in Barnet 1995: Austria?, late 19th or early 20th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
The outer rim of each mirror case was glued onto the circular disk of the mirror case: this practice betrays a modern date for the pieces.
Provenance
Fitzhenry collection: sale, Christie's, London, 16 June 1905, lot 10. Bought by the Museum from A. Satori in Vienna in September 1923 (Founders Society Purchase).
Bibliography
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 90, pp. 301-302.
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