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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene. Courtly love.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 110mm (diameter)

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; couple embracing; second youth on horseback; both youths with a hawk on their wrist; hunter on foot; birds; dogs running; man in a tree.

Migeon 1906: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Paul Garnier, Paris (by 1906): his sale, Paris, 18-23 December 1916, lot 46. Sotheby's, London, 13 December 2000, lot 8.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Collection Paul Garnier', in Les Arts 53 (May 1906), pt. 2, pp. 13-24 (pp. 14 and 16).
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 120.

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