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| Keywords: Italian - Mirror Case with the Gift of the Comb - Walters 71269.jpg A couple is seen in the center of the composition; the gentleman in belted robe offers a comb to his lady She is dressed in a houppelande with long pendants from the elbows and her hair is braided and dressed in a cap over the ears The landscape consists of a stylized castle at each side a tree at the center and a boulderlike ground plane The subject is contained within a quatrefoil of tracery with leaf terminals The circular mirror form is brought to a square with four leaf-corner projections with incised veins between 1390 1400 Medieval ivory cm 9 8 9 5 accession number 71 269 30221 Lord H Gibson-Carmichael Collection date and mode of acqusition unknown Lord H Gibson-Carmichael Sale London May 12-13 1902 George R Harding London date and mode of acqusition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Walters Collection Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 The International Style The Arts in Europe Around 1400 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1962 Medieval Games of Love and War The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 place of origin Milan Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian carved ivory mirror cases in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Braids in art 14th-century carved ivory mirror cases | ||||
