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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 8513 (almost completely destroyed)

Ivory

Width: 120mm

Attack on the Castle of Love; knights; horses; ladies defending the Castle of Love; shield with flowers; lovers; crossbow throwing flowers; knights in armour assaulting the castle; ladies throwing flowers from the battlements; knight climbing a ladder; ladies on horseback with bunches of flowers.
Corner terminals: four hybrids.
Crosshatched background.

Dokumentation 2006: France, c. 1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Prior to WWII
Missing: two hybrids and part of a third one.
Today
Almost completely destroyed during WWII. Five fragments have survived.

Provenance
Figdor collection, Vienna; acquired by the Museum in 1935; undocumented after 7 April 1945; one fragment was returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958 while four more fragments were brought to Wiesbaden in 1946 and then to Berlin-Dahlem in 1958.

Bibliography
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 244.

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