Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Various labels with inscriptions: '174', '5', 'H. Oppenhei[mer]', 'J-190 [C]ARVE[D I]VORY MI[R]ROR [CAS]E'.

Object Condition
Missing: face of the attendant, piece of the background next to the queen's head including the lure held by the first horseman (replaced with a diamond-shaped piece; the lure has been replaced by a mace).

Comments
The companion piece to this mirror may be Koechlin 1054, now in a private collection in London.

Provenance
Collection of John Watkins Brett (b. 1805, d. 1863), Burleigh House, London: his sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 18 April 1864, lot 2003; Rhodes collection. Collection of Jeffery Whitehead: sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1906, lot 10. Collection of Henry Oppenheimer, London (exhibited in 1923 at the Burlington Club): his sale, Christie's, London, 15 July 1936, lot 174. Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York: sold to Blumka Gallery through J. F. Hayward, England; sold by Blumka to the Harvard Art Museum in 1952.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 143, pl. XL.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 377, n. 1.
Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900, exhibition catalogue, London, Academy of Arts, 1932, no. 580r.
H. Bober, 'A French Gothic Mirror Case', in Fogg Art Museum Annual Report (1952-1953), p. 5.
Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, ed. by D. Gillerman, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1977, no. 19 (ill. on p. 63 and cover)
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 185 (ill. on p. 124).
M.-A. Carlier, Art Médiéval: Exposition à l'occasion du centenaire de Brimo de Laroussilhe, (Paris, 2008), pp. 80-85 (ill. on p. 84)