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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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

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Height: 90mm (diameter)

Courtly love (meeting of lovers; courting couples); youth kneeling before a lady; lady kneeling before her lover; youth chucking his lover under the chin; winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers; birds; offering.
Four compartments formed by the branches of a tree dividing in the centre. Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg, Paris, sold Paris, 11 May 1908, lot 489 (with ill.) (purchased by Molinier).


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