A & A spacer courtauld institute of art
login
quick search advanced search browse temp folder

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)
enlarge image zoom image

Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
www.imm.hu

To purchase an image
www.imm.hu


Budapest, Iparművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Applied Arts)

Inv. 18845

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 97mm
Depth: 8mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.


Koechlin Number: 1069

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Budapest 1972, Budapest 1978 and Koroknay 1979: French, beginning of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.

Object Condition
Missing: upper left corner terminal.
Part of the lower left corner terminal broken. Vertical crack in the lower part of the piece.

Provenance
Transferred from the Hungarian National Museum in 1936.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 400, 402; II, no. 1069.
Az európai iparművészet remekei: száz éves az Iparművészeti Múzeum, 1872-1972, ed. by D. Rodocsay, Z. Farkas, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, Iparművészeti Múzeum, 1972, no. 17.
Kisplasztikai kiállítás a 10.-től a 19.századig az Iparművészeti Múzeum és a Szépművészeti Múzeum anyagából, ed. by É. S. Eszláry, É. S. Koroknay, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, 1978, no. 1.
É. S. Koroknay, 'Elefántcsont faragások', in Az Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményei, ed. by P. Miklós (Budapest, 1979), p. 93, fig. 6.
Entry in the Museum's online collection catalogue: http://gyujtemeny.imm.hu/gyujtemeny/tukorfoglalat-a-szerelmeseknek-nyilvesszot-atnyujto-amor-abrazolasaval/6239 [accessed June 2013].


Image

© Iparmûvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Applied Arts), Budapest.

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.

spacer
spacer spacer spacer spacer
Please remember to acknowledge any use of the site in publications and lectures as: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk', followed by the date you accessed the site.