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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. Courtly love. Romance.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

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; knights in armour; staircase; towers; courting couple (?) watching from the castle battlements.
Masks in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1330-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back originally turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Edges on the back have been filed.

Provenance
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.121, p. 33.


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