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Source Description
The figures stand within a trefoil of tracery with rose terminals. The crowned Virgin, in voluminous drapery, holds the naked Christ Child between Mary Magdalen and Saint James Major. The background is plain, and the circular form is brought to a square with four corner leaves, carved in relief and incised with veins.Mirror cases with religious subjects are rare. There is a hole at the lower edge from a flaw in the ivory and a drilled hole in the upper left leaf.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
2516
label
Mirror Case with the Virgin and Saints
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
2516
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Mirror Case with the Virgin and Saints
description
The figures stand within a trefoil of tracery with rose terminals. The crowned Virgin, in voluminous drapery, holds the naked Christ Child between Mary Magdalen and Saint James Major. The background is plain, and the circular form is brought to a square with four corner leaves, carved in relief and incised with veins.Mirror cases with religious subjects are rare. There is a hole at the lower edge from a flaw in the ivory and a drilled hole in the upper left leaf.
provenance
Frédéric Spitzer, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, April 17, 1893, lot 123; Léon Gruel, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st quarter 15th century (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
mirrors
cases (containers)
imageCount
1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
7.3
height
6.8
dimensionsRaw
H: 2 7/8 x W: 2 11/16 in. (7.3 x 6.8 cm)
Source extras
style
Gothic
med
ivory
creator_ids
33562
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
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