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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. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 90mm (diameter)

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady with a whip; lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.


Koechlin Number: 1020

Koechlin 1906 and Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: lower left corner terminal (replaced).

Provenance
Collection of Émile Gavet: his sale, Paris, 31 May-9 June 1897, lot 324 (mirror image in the catalogue). Martin Le Roy collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Bibliography
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie (Paris, 1896), I: Les Ivoires, p. 195.
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 31, pl. XVI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 385; II, no. 1020; III, pl. CLXXVIII.


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