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Mirror case, frame of 4 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case, frame of 4 lobes (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.269

Ivory

Height: 98mm
Width: 95mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); offering of a comb (gift of the comb); tree; castles; lady wearing pendant sleeves; lady with braided hair.
Foliated corner terminals.

Ann Arbor 1975: French, c. 1400.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: North Italian (Lombardy or Milan), 1390-1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Comments
Randall 1985: The attitude is that of conventional Italian wedding portrayal of the 15th century. Probably by the same hand as British Museum, Dalton 384.

Provenance
Collection of Lord H. Gibson-Carmichael: sold, Christie's, London, 12-13 May 1902, lot 7, to George R. Harding; George R. Harding collection (XIV, no. 1594): sold to Henry Walters in London in February 1903; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
Images of Love and Death in Renaissance and Late Medieval Art, exhibition catalogue, ed. by W. R. Levin, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, November 1975-January 1976, no. 72, pl. I.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 345.


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