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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Unknown location

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Ivory

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

Koechlin 1912: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Marcus Antocolsky collection, Paris: his sale, Drouot, Paris, 10-12 June 1901, lot 74 (sold to M. Houzeau?). Collection of Édouard Guilhou. Emile Baboin collection, Lyon (by 1912). A. E. Gilou collection: Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1961, lot 90. Sotheby's, 9 April 1962.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 30.

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