Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Grünes Gewölbe

Inv. II 269 ccc

Ivory

Height: 103 mm
Width: 103 mm

Tournament; courting couples; ladies and youths observing the jousting knights in armour from a balcony; horses; shields.
Foliated corner terminals.
Animal heads (dogs?) in the spandrels

Sponsel 1921: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 19th century (?).
Museum’s opinion 2013: 19th century (in Gothic style)(?).

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Worn. Vertical cracks. Central hole in the upper part of the piece.

Provenance
Mentioned in the 1879 inventory of the Ivory Room in the Grünes Gewölbe Museum.

Bibliography
J. L. Sponsel, Führer durch das Grüne Gewölbe zu Dresden (Dresden, 1921), p. 19.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 381 (in relation to no. 1041).

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