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. Romance.

Repository Institution
www.carpentras.fr

To purchase an image
www.carpentras.fr

Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine

S/n (stolen)

Ivory

Height: 98mm (diameter)

Castle of Love; courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth with a hawk on his wrist; embracing couple on the battlements; ladies on a staircase, leading a knight by the hand onto a staircase; staircase; towers.
Alternative interpretation: Galahad arriving at the Castle of the Maidens.
Masks in the spandrels. Foliated corner terminals.

Koechlin Number: 1102

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Stolen in the 1970s.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 409; II, no. 1102.

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