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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)
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Front

Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

KK 163

Ivory

Height: 80mm (diameter)

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth holding a pair of gloves; trees.


Koechlin Number: 0986

Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 14th century.
Vienna 1964: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Haag 2006: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (trees, draperies).

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Label with printed inscription: '163'.

Object Condition
A hole has been pierced at the top, probably for hanging (later).
Lower right border chipped.
Missing: four corner terminals (Koechlin 1924).

Provenance
Transferred in 1847 from the k.k. Münz- und Antikenkabinett.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 375, 376; II, no. 986; III, pl. CLXXV.
Katalog der Sammlung für Plastik und Kunstgewerbe (Vienna, 1964), I. Mittelalter, no. 11.
800 Jahre Franz von Assisi. Franziskanische Kunst und Kultur des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Krems - Stein, Minoritenkirche, 15 May-17 October 1982, p. 35, no. 117.
Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation, 962 bis 1806: Von Otto dem Grossen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters, ed. by M. Puhle and C.-P. Hasse, exhibition catalogue, Dresden, 2006, p. 351, no. IV.120.


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