Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88925064 (EE97)

Ivory

Height: 82mm (diameter
Depth: 8mm

Attack on the Castle of Love; knights in armour fighting with swords; horses; couple on the battlements; ladies holding chaplets and flowers; two heralds in trees blowing trumpets; towers; portcullis.
Foliated corner terminals.

Museum's opinion 2009: French (Paris), 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Blue and white label with the inscription: 'Collection Wernher no. 97'.

Object Condition
Hole in the upper edge.

Provenance
Collection of Émile Gavet: his sale, Paris, 31 May-9 June 1897, lot 319; Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

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