Mirror Case with Lovers

1st quarter 14th century (Medieval)

5.7 cm 5.8 cm

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This unusually small mirror case, perhaps for a child, depicts the meeting of two lovers. It is framed in a hexafoil, and the simple outer molding has four crouching monsters as corner terminals. A large hole is drilled in the center; holes in each of the corner terminals indi...

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Henri Daguerre, Paris, until 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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