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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly Love. Games.

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Ivory

Couple playing chess; courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth with a hawk on his wrist; female servant.


Koechlin Number: 1055

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Surface burnt.
Deep crack to the right.

Provenance
Cardon collection, Brussels (by 1900; sold before 1924)

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 158.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 388; II, no. 1055.


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