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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 8512 (almost completely destroyed)

Ivory

Height: 85mm (diameter)

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lover); lady and youth hawking on horseback; couple embracing; youth with a hawk on his wrist; trees; two dogs running.

Dokumentation 2006: France, 1st half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: eleven fragments have survived.

Provenance
Figdor collection, Vienna; acquired by the Museum in 1935; undocumented after 7 April 1945; eleven fragments returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.

Bibliography
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 244.

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