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Source Description
Originally this ivory plaque was the back for a disk-shaped mirror of polished metal. It is carved with a scene of the Fountain of Youth. Elderly men and women walk or travel by cart from the left to the mythical Fountain of Youth at the right. They bathe and reemerge as young couples who enter into the castle at the center and court above upon the battlements. The frame, a circle within a square, has four crouched dragon-like creatures in each corner.
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Document identity
localId
16990
label
Mirror Cover with the Fountain of Youth
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obj
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object
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Source metadata
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16990
sourceUrl
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object
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normalized
title
Mirror Cover with the Fountain of Youth
description
Originally this ivory plaque was the back for a disk-shaped mirror of polished metal. It is carved with a scene of the Fountain of Youth. Elderly men and women walk or travel by cart from the left to the mythical Fountain of Youth at the right. They bathe and reemerge as young couples who enter into the castle at the center and court above upon the battlements. The frame, a circle within a square, has four crouched dragon-like creatures in each corner.
provenance
Count Gregorii Stroganoff, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1330-1340 (Medieval)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
mirrors
cases
plaques
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4
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4
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
13
height
12.4
depth
1
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 1/8 x W: 4 7/8 x D: 3/8 in. (13 x 12.4 x 1 cm)
Source extras
cul
French
style
Gothic
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ivory
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6229
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MED
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961
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3310
Page inventory
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photo
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photo
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photo
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