Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, 2 registers, frame of 4 lobes, bands of rosettes (valve de miroir; décor de roses) (Front)

Mirror case, 2 registers, frame of 4 lobes, bands of rosettes (valve de miroir; décor de roses) (Front)

Mirror case, 2 registers, frame of 4 lobes, bands of rosettes (valve de miroir; décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Ivory

Register 1: Winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers; courting couples; youth chucking his lover under the chin; couple embracing.
Register 2: courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady chucking her lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a chaplet; trees.
Animal heads (including dog) and hybrids in the spandrels.
Corner terminals: four crouching hybrids.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: part of the lower left corner terminal.

Comments
Identical to a piece in the Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris (Inv. Cl. 401), probably a copy of it. Another copy of the Cluny piece is in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid (Inv. 1498).

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris (sometime before 1924).

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