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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

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Birmingham, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Inv. 50.14

Ivory

Height: 84mm (diameter; without corner terminals)

Attack on the Castle of Love; ladies and the God of Love defending the Castle of Love; God of Love with a hawk on his wrist; God of Love throwing arrows; knights assaulting the castle; lady crowning her lover with a chaplet; jousting knights in armour; couples watching from the castle battlements; shields; horses.
Corner terminals: four lions.

Museum's opinion 2012 (based on the opinion of Charles Avery, 1981): 19th-century imitation of the French (Paris) 14th-century style.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Slightly tapering at the edges.

Object Condition
Worn. Yellowing.

Provenance
Purchased by the Henry Barber Trustees at the Henry Harris sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 October 1950, lot 9 (£30).

Bibliography
P. Spencer-Longhurst, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts: Handbook (Birmingham, 1993), p. 126.

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