Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 76mm (diameter)

Meeting of lovers (courting couples); couple embracing; male and female onlookers.
Masks in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0995

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

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Deep brown patina.
Chipped at the edge. Suspension hole at the top and to the right..

Provenance
Collection of Mr. Ratzersdorfer, Paris (sometime before 1924). Major Astor collection, at Hever Castle (Kent): Sotheby's, Hever Castle collection, 6 May 1983, lot 229.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 376, 377, 379; II, no. 995.

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