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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

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

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Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale

Inv. 4122 (formerly Inv. 692)

Ivory

Height: 70mm (diameter)

Courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; youth chucking his lover under the chin; lady holding a chaplet; tree.

Bologna 1959: French, 14th century.
Vitali 1976: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Marciano c. 1992-1994: Paris (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of count Ludovico Savioli: donated by him to the Collezioni Universitarie (no. 355) in 1776; acquired by the Museo Civico di Bologna in 1881.

Bibliography
Lavori in osso e avorio dalla Preistoria al Rococò, dir. by R. Pincelli, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, Museo Civico, 20 September-11 October 1959, no. 108, pl. 26.
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Museo Poldi-Pezzoli, 1976, no. 34, p. 49.
A. Marciano, 'Ludovico Savioli e gli avori dei bassi tempi', in Arte a Bologna 2 (1992), pp. 187-202 (p. 188, pl. 6).
A. Marciano, Avori gotici - entry no. 2 (Museo Civico Medievale), Catalogo dei Musei Civici d'Arte Antica di Bologna (unpublished; [c. 1992-1994]).


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