Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Courting couples (meeting of lovers); youth chucking a lady under the chin; lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; tree.
Corner terminals: four crouching hybrids.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Darker vertical strip down the middle of the piece. Break down the middle (?).

Provenance
Collection of Sigismond Bardac, Paris (before 1924).

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