Mirror Cover with a Couple Playing Chess

mid 14th century (Medieval)

10.5 cm 9.8 cm 1.6 cm

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This ivory mirror back shows a couple playing chess, a game symbolic of a young man's battle to win his lady's heart. The scene is surrounded by a ten-lobed frame adorned with masks and four crouched dragons fill the four corners.

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Freiherr von Wambolt, Aschaffenburg, 1847; Jakob von Hefner-Alteneck, Munich; Jakob von Hefner-Alteneck Sale, Munich, June 6-7, 1904, no. 308; Léon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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