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| Keywords: German - Mirror Cover with a Couple Playing Chess - Walters 71268 - Back.jpg 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 middle Other date century 14 Medieval ivory cm 9 5 10 accession number 71 268 18374 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 city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Medieval Games of Love and War The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 Checkmate Medieval People at Play The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2010 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Carved ivory mirror cases in the Walters Art Museum 14th-century carved ivory mirror cases German art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Wambolt von Umstadt family German carved ivory mirror cases | ||||
