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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

PPO02423

Ivory

Height: 150mm (diameter)
Depth: 6mm

Attack on the Castle of Love; king (God of Love?) with a hawk on his wrist; men assaulting the castle; ladies crowning their lovers with chaplets; man climbing a ladder; youth chucking his lover under the chin. Tournament; ladies and youths observing the jousting knights in armour from the castle battlements; portcullis.
Corner terminals: four hybrids.

Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Donated to the Museum by Charles Vincent Ocampo in 1931.

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