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Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)

Mirror case (valve de miroir) (Front)
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Front

Back

Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 88mm
Width: 90mm (each)
Depth: 10mm

Hawking party; courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady and youth hawking on horseback; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady holding a whip; tree.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.


Koechlin Number: 1021

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Labels with inscriptions: '360', '358', '38', 'Dormeuil', '104'.

Object Condition
Missing: mouth of the upper right corner monster.

Comments
Label with inscription '129' on the front.

Provenance
Collection of J. C. Seguin: sold, Paris, December 1910, lot 358. Collection of Georges Dormeuil, (at least form 1913): sold, Paris, Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, 19 November 2007, lot 7. Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (in 2008; see M.-A. Carlier, Art Médiéval. Exposition à l'occasion du centenaire de Brimo de Laroussilhe (Paris, 2008), no. 19).

Bibliography
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 117, p. 60.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 385; II, no. 1021.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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