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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 389

Ivory

Height: 96mm (diameter)

Castle of Love. Winged God of Love throwing arrows at lovers; wounded man supported by two ladies.
Masks in the spandrels. Foliated corner terminals.

Koechlin Number: 1103

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Corner terminals partly broken or missing.
Central hole in the upper part of the piece.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
J. Destrée, 'Un Miroir mosan', in Bulletin des Musées du Cinquantenaire (1913), p. 10.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 407, 409; II, no. 1103.

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