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Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 6 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Romance.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 115mm

Sleeping knight; attendant presenting a banner and shield to a knight on horseback; spear; shield with a face; shield with roses; coat of mail; castle; trees.
Foliated corner terminals; masks in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 1065

Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Two bottom corner terminals broken.
Holes in the upper two terminals.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 88.Collection of Adalbert, Freiherr von Lanna (b. 1836, d. 1909), Prague: his sale, part 2, Lepke, Berlin, 21 March 1911, lot 172. Collection of Michiel Onnes of Nijenrode (d. 1972), Breukelen: his sale, Amsterdam, 4-7 July 1933, lot 200.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 53 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 395, 410; II, no. 1065.


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