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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Romances.


Private collection, London (in 2012)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 120mm (diameter)

Knights in armour fighting with swords; knights on horseback; shields; ladies and youths watching from the castle battlements; portcullis.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Worn.
Large later hole in the upper part of the piece.

Provenance
Collection of Bernd and Eva Hockemeyer. Bought by Rainer Zietz, art dealer, London, at Retford, Nottinghamshire in 1990. Private collection, London (in 2012).


Image

© Private Collection, London.

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