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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

Width: 88mm (diameter)

Meeting of lovers (courting couples); offering of the heart; lady crowning her lover with a chaplet; trees.
Rosettes in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Lord Londesborough. Drouot sale, Paris, 27 May 1937, lot 61. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.120, p. 33.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.120, p. 33.


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