Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, frame of 4 lobes (quatre-feuilles; valve de miroir) (Back)

Mirror case, frame of 4 lobes (quatre-feuilles; valve de miroir) (Back)

Mirror case, frame of 4 lobes (quatre-feuilles; valve de miroir) (Back)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum

1929.8.240.4

Ivory

Height: 87mm (diameter)

Offering of the heart; meeting of lovers (courting couple); lady with plaited hair; tree; castles.
Incised trefoils.

Randall 1993: North Italian (Lombardy or Milan), 1390-1400.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Pierced by a modern hole. Chipped lower border.
Missing: corner terminals.

Provenance
Gift of John Gellatly in 1929.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 213.

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