Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth with a hawk on his wrist; youth holding a heart-shaped lure for hawks; lady holding a wreath of flowers; lady holding a flower; lady wearing a horned headdress (bourrelet); fashionable dress; birds in trees; hawks flying.
Crosshatched background; roped border.
Carved inscription: 'quy byen ayme atart oublye'.
Van Os 1996: Northern Italy, early 15th century.
Rotterdam 2012: Southern Netherlands or Northern France, c. 1425.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Label with inscription: 'MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA 1373'.
Comments
This mirror case may form a pair with another half in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Inv. BK-1992-27). See related objects.
Provenance
Probably collection of Charles Loeser (b. 1864, d. 1928), Florence; Carlo de Carlo. Trinity Fine Arts, New Galleries, New York (in 1994). Private collection, London (in 2015).
Bibliography
H. van Os, Een engel in de koffer: Willem Neutelings en zijn verzameling (Baarn, 1996), p. 30, fig. 37.
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, p. 220, fig. 1, in relation to no. 50.
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