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Source Description
A couple stands within a hexafoil against a crosshatched ground; a stylized castle is at the right and a tree at the left. The man wears a "houppelande" with wide sleeves; the woman's "houppelande" is pleated and belted. The woman wears a veil on her head and presents her partner with a large rose. The spandrels of the hexafoil are filled with masks, and the mirror is brought to a square with four corner leaves showing incised veins. There are two later holes drilled in the cover. The iconography relates this piece to Walters 71.269.
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Document identity
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37260
label
Mirror Case with the Gift of the Rose
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obj
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object
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Source metadata
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37260
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object
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normalized
title
Mirror Case with the Gift of the Rose
description
A couple stands within a hexafoil against a crosshatched ground; a stylized castle is at the right and a tree at the left. The man wears a "houppelande" with wide sleeves; the woman's "houppelande" is pleated and belted. The woman wears a veil on her head and presents her partner with a large rose. The spandrels of the hexafoil are filled with masks, and the mirror is brought to a square with four corner leaves showing incised veins. There are two later holes drilled in the cover. The iconography relates this piece to Walters 71.269.
provenance
Collection of Caspar and Stephen Bourgeois, Cologne; Bourgeois Frères Sale, Cologne, October 19, 1904, no. 1082. Collection of Georges Hoentschel [1855-1915], Paris. Puchased by Henri Daguerre, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1390-1400 (late Medieval)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Ivory & Bone
mirrors
cases (containers)
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2
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2
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
10.8
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10.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 1/4 x W: 4 in. (10.8 x 10.2 cm)
Source extras
cul
Medieval European
style
Gothic
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ivory
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33562
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MED
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2109
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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63f60590d8bd4786
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2
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photo
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91d70bfecfa01ae3
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