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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Inv. 1900.68

Ivory

Attack on the Castle of Love; ladies pouring baskets of roses on the attackers from the battlements; couple on horseback (elopement); knights in armour on horseback; ladies on horseback brandishing stems of flowers or branches; dogs pursuing a stag and a hare.
Corner terminals (damaged): crouching monsters.

Koechlin Number: 1090

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Crosshatching inside the rim.

Object Condition
Missing: left part of the mirror case; corner terminals partly broken.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum in 1900.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 407, 409; II, no. 1090; III, pl. CLXXXV.

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