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Mirror case, frame of 9 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)
Mirror case, frame of 9 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Rome, Vatican, Musei Vaticani

Inv. 65007

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 97mm
Depth: 6-10mm
Weight: 68.6g

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of the heart; lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet or wreath; trees.
Masks in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 1000

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: blue (background), gold, red, black.

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

Object Condition
Hole in the upper edge, coming out on the reverse.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), pl. XVII, no. 2.
A. Rossi, 'Les Ivoires gothiques français du Vatican', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1905, I, p. 401.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 378; II, no. 1000.


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