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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Stuttgart, Landesmuseum Württemberg

Inv. 1983-175

Ivory

Height: 85mm (diameter)

Couple playing chess; courting couple; man with his left hand around the pole supporting the tent; lady holding one or two chess pieces in her left hand.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, beginning of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Six later drill holes; cracked.
Missing: head of the lower right corner terminal.

Provenance
Major Astor collection, at Hever Castle (Kent): his sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1983, lot 228; acquired in 1983 thanks to Toto-Lotto-Mitteln.

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