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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)

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Subject
Secular. Romance. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
petitpalais.paris.fr

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Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

PPO02424

Ivory

Height: 102mm (diameter)
Depth: 7mm

Embracing couple (meeting of lovers); hermit.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.

Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 19 May 1927, lot 74. Collection of Charles Vincent Ocampo: donated to the Museum by him in 1931.

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