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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. MA 1998

Ivory

Height: 76 mm
Width: 77 mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple embracing; youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady holding a chaplet; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.


Koechlin Number: 0987

Berliner 1926: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Thinesse 1977: France, c. 1320-1330.
Munich 2010: France, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.

Object Condition
Hole in the upper rim.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum on the Munich art market in 1872.

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1365, pl. XXVII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 376, II, no. 987
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 39.
Kunst und Kunsthandwerk. Festschrift zum Hundertjährigen Bestehen des Museums (Munich, 1955), no. 12.
J. Thinesse, Appendix zum Elfenbeinkatalog Rudolf Berliners, unpublished MA dissertation, Munich, 1977 (Typescript), pp. 30-31, no. 39.
I. Krüger, 'Glasspiegel im Mittelalter', in Bonner Jahrbücher 190 (1990), pp. 272-273.
Margarete Gräfin von Tirol, exhibition catalogue, Landesmuseum Schloss Tirol, 30 June 2007 - 19 November 2007, p. 53, no. 4.11 (P. Dinzelbacher).
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten: ausgewählte Werke aus den Beständen des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, ed. by R. Eikelmann, M. Weniger and C. Melzer, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 2010, no. 23.


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