Mirror Cover with a Couple Playing Chess
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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18374
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object
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stage
normalized
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provenance
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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CC0
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en
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3
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.268_Back_DD_T07.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.268_Back_DD_T07.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.268_Back_DD_T07.jpg |
| imageCount | 3 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.268 |
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Medium
ivory
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