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| Keywords: French - Mirror Case with Attack on the Castle of Love - Walters 71169 - Top.jpg The popularity of ivory luxury goods reached its height around 1350 but they were made well into the 15th century Associated with intimacy mirrors were often given as courting gifts A portable mirror consisted of a case in two parts with a polished metal disk fitted inside In this allegorical battle scene knights attack ladies in a castle using catapults and crossbows that launch flowers The ladies also shower their adversaries with flowers dropped from buckets The god of love presides over all A single knight has reached his lady by scaling the wall This scene and those of the knights riding away may be three moments in an elopement narrative The case originally had fantastic animals forming the four corners between 1320 1340 Medieval ivory Diam 5 3/16 x D 3/8 in 13 2 x 1 cm accession number 71 169 24521 Treasury of the Cistercian Abbey of Rein Styria Jacques Seligmann Paris 1928 by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore December 1 1928 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1928 Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces in Miniature The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Medieval Games of Love and War The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 Images in Ivory Precious Objects of the Gothic Age The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 The Book of Kings Art War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Academy of the Arts Easton Easton; Princeton University Art Museum Princeton; The Mitchell Gallery Annapolis; Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown 2002 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license French carved ivory mirror cases in the Walters Art Museum 14th-century carved ivory mirror cases Sieges in art Assault on the Castle of Love | ||||
