Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Blue and white label with handwritten inscription: 'Back of mirror. (14th cent. [added]) Temp: Edward 3rd. Bought by Charles Stothard R. A. at the sale of Sir Samuel Merrick's collection'.

Object Condition
Lower edge chipped.
Trimmed corner terminals.

Provenance
By tradition, collection of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (b. 1783, d. 1848). Collection of Charles Stothard R. A. (b. 1786, d. 1821) and his wife Anna Eliza Kempe (b. 1790, d. 1883); given to her brother Alfred John Kempe FSA (b. 1784, d. 1846) and by descent to Margaret Caroline Ford (b. 1884, d. 1979); by descent to Dr. Edward Ford (b. 1925, d. 1997); accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum in 2001.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 377, n. 4.
M. Kauffmann and J. Warren, ‘Courtly Love on a Medieval Ivory Mirror’, The Ashmolean 42 (spring 2002), p. 9-10.
N. Perkins and A. Wiggins, The Romance of the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2012), pp. 92-3, fig. 36.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 164.