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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale

Inv. 698

Ivory or bone

Height: 117mm (diameter)

Attack on the Castle of Love; knights in armour assaulting the castle; knights on horseback; ladies throwing roses on the attackers; shields with flowers; knights in armour fighting with swords.


Koechlin Number: 1082

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Bologna 1959: late 14th century.
Marciano c. 1992-1994: Paris, c. 1320-1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Edges chipped.
Missing: four corner terminals.

Provenance
Collection of Pelagio Pelagi (no. 249); this collection was acquired by the Comune di Bologna in 1860 and subsequently divided between the Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio, the Museo Civico Archeologico and the Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna.

Bibliography
P. Ducati, Guida del Museo Civico di Bologna (Bologna, 1923), p. 185.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 406; II, no. 1082; III, pl. CLXXXV.
Lavori in osso e avorio dalla Preistoria al Rococò, dir. by R. Pincelli, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, Museo Civico, 20 September-11 October 1959, no. 112, pl. 21.
A. Marciano, Avori gotici - entry no. 8 (Museo Civico Medievale), Catalogo dei Musei Civici d'Arte Antica di Bologna (unpublished, [c. 1992-1994]).


Image

© Laila Zamuelis Gross Archive of Secular Ivories, 1985.

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