Gothic Ivories Project | Mirror case, frame of 7 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 7 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 7 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.265

Ivory

Height: 95mm (diameter)
Width: 95mm

Seated youth with a hawk on his wrist; kneeling lady struck by an arrow holding a chaplet; winged God of Love in a tree throwing arrows at lovers.
Masks in the spandrels.
Corner terminals: crouching monsters.

Koechlin Number: 1070

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, mid-14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Worn.

Provenance
Collection of Count Dimitri Stroganoff, Rome. Elia Volpi collection, Florence: sold, New York, 21 November 1916, lot 1; bought from H. Wareham Harding by Henry Walters in 1916 in New York; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 400, 402; II, no. 1070.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 332.

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