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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

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Ivory

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); king and queen hawking on horseback; king chucking his lover under the chin; hunter on horseback holding a lure; youth with a hawk on his wrist; attendant holding a pair of gloves; trees.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Traces of breakage in the upper part of the piece.

Provenance
Yanville collection: his sale, 1901 (?), lot 26 (see Paris, Bibliothèque du Musée des arts décoratifs, Maciet Album 325/10-98). Collection of Mr. Ratzersdorfer, Paris (sometime before 1924).


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