A & A spacer courtauld institute of art
login profile preferences history searches sets
quick search go advanced search browse temp folder

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 8 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)
enlarge image zoom image

Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Romance.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Width: 103mm

Castle of Love; courting couple (meeting of lovers); embracing couple; God of Love throwing arrows at lovers from the battlements; ladies on a staircase; lady holding a key; lion; staircase; towers.
Alternative interpretation: Galahad receiving the keys to the Castle of the Maidens.
Masks in the spandrels. Foliated corner terminals.


Koechlin Number: 1101

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: upper right corner terminal partly broken.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Heugel collection, Paris: sale, 1902; Lowengard collection (in 1902). Collection of Cyril Humphris: sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10-11 January 1995, lot 2. Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 214.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Le Dieu d'Amour', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts II (1921), p. 293.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 409, 442; II, no. 1101; III, pl. CLXXXVII.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.

spacer
add commentsadd / view
comments
spacer
email a linkemail a link
to this image
spacer
add to folderadd this image
to folder
spacer
save to setsave this image
to a set
spacer
Please remember to acknowledge any use of the site in publications and lectures as: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk', followed by the date you accessed the site.