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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Back)

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

Repository Institution
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Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh

MMB.0448

Ivory

Height: 61mm
Width: 58mm

God of Love (?) in a tree crowning a couple; courting couple (meeting of lovers; possibly Tristan and Iseult); lady with a hawk on her wrist; lady holding a dog; bench.
Foliated corner terminals.

De Coo 1969: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.

Object Condition
Missing: upper left corner terminal. Other three corner terminals partly broken.
Worn.

Comments
The couple has been identified as Tristan and Iseult (see Leuven 1987).

Provenance
Purchased in 1891 by Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (b. 1858, d. 1901), Antwerp; upon his death, his mother Henriëtte had a purpose-built museum erected (1901-1904) to house his collection.

Bibliography
J. De Coo, Catalogue du Musée Mayer van den Bergh (Antwerp, 1933), no. 232.
J. De Coo, Museum Mayer Van den Bergh, Catalogus 2. Beeldhouwkunst, plaketten, antiek (Antwerp, 1969), no. 2126.
J. Janssens, M. Smeyers, W. Verbeke, Arturus Rex: Koning Artur en de Nederlanden : la matière de Bretagne et les anciens Pays-Bas, I, exhibition catalogue, Leuven, 1987, pp. 84-86, no. 1.5.6.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


Image

Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp © Bart Huysmans and Michel Wuyts.

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