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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Romance.

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Ivory

Attack on the Castle of Love; knights in armour assaulting the castle; knight climbing a ladder; knight being lifted onto the battlements by an other knight; horses; ladies on the battlements; trees.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.123, p. 34.

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