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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 90mm (diameter)

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; whip; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.


Koechlin Number: 1022

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 Kann: his sale, December 5, 1910, p. 36 lot 222 and pl. Collection of Georges Dormeuil (at least from 1913): his sale, 17 June 1949, lot 34, pl. X. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).

Bibliography
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 118, p. 61.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 386; no. 1022.
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.118, p. 32.


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