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Mirror case, in a frame of 12 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, in a frame of 12 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 100mm

Hawking party; courting couple; courtly love; lady and youth hawking on horseback; lady wearing a hat with a pointed brim; lady chucking her lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; hunter with a spear.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.


Koechlin Number: 1027

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1320-1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Not viewed.

Provenance
Collection of Maurice Sulzbach, Paris. Paul Garnier collection: his sale, Paris, 18-23 December 1916, lot 48. Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne (in 1964). Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (in 2012)(M.-A. Carlier, Art du Moyen Age XIe-XIVe siècle, Paris, Galerie Brimo de Laroussilhe, 12 September-31 October 2012, no. 27).

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Collection Paul Garnier', in Les Arts 53 (May 1906), pt. 2, pp. 13-24 (pp. 14 and 16).
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance (Paris, 1913), no. 120.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 385-386; II, no. 1027; III, pl. CLXXIX.
Katalog Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue (Basel, 1951), no. 25.
Grosse Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue,Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 22, p. 20.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 7 June-2 August 1964, no. 86, pl. 75.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.119, p. 33.
H. Schnitzler, P. Bloch, C. Ratton and F. Volbach, Mittelalterliche Elfenbein- und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, 1965, no. S.119, pp. 31-32, 116.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 226.


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