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| Keywords: Italian - Mirror Case with the Gift of the Rose - Walters 71281.jpg A couple stands within a hexafoil against a crosshatched ground; a stylized castle is at the right and a tree at the left The man wears a houppelande with wide sleeves; the woman's houppelande is pleated and belted The woman wears a veil on her head and presents her partner with a large rose The spandrels of the hexafoil are filled with masks and the mirror is brought to a square with four corner leaves showing incised veins There are two later holes drilled in the cover The iconography relates this piece to Walters 71 269 between 1390 1400 late Medieval ivory cm 10 8 10 2 accession number 71 281 37260 Caspar Bourgeois and Stephen Bourgeois Cologne date of acquisition unknown by purchase Bourgeois Frères Sale Cologne October 19 1904 no 1082 Henri Daguerre Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Romance of the Rose Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2009 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 Courtly love 14th-century carved ivory mirror cases | ||||
