Mirror Cover with Two Lovers

ca. 1410 (early Renaissance)

8.1 cm 8.6 cm 0.9 cm

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A mirror case is a very shalow box (most extant ones are of ivory) in which is kept a polished metal mirror. This is the top half which would screw into the missing bottom half. This beautifully designed top cover shows a young man offering his lady a flower. The figures stan...

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Pietro di Giacomo Gradenigo, Venice, ca. 1750, by purchase; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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