Register 1: lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; youth chucking his lover under the chin; female musician playing a portable organ; trees.
Register 2: Hawking party; ladies on horseback; hunter blowing a horn; ladies with hawks on their wrists; lady with a lure for hawks; youth with a bird caught by a hawk; lady holding a pair of gloves or a whip.
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.
Lowden 2008: Paris, c. 1325-1375.
Museum's opinion 2008: Paris, c. 1325-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. An early 19th-century cartouche has been painted in the aperture of the mirror.Partly erased inscription: 'Lady [?] Acton.../ 18...9'.
Comments
This mirror case may form a pair with Inv. 210-1865 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (see Williamson and Davies 2014).
Provenance
Lord Acton collection, Aldenham Park, until 1945. Christie's, London, 7 December 1993, lot 18. Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Syd Levethan, Connecticut, USA, via Sam Fogg, London, 21 October 2002; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.
Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 41.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 202.
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