Mirror Cover with a Lover Crowned

Description This ivory, once the protective case for a disk-shaped mirror, represents a young man who kneels and is crowned with a wreath by his lady. The whole has a circular frame and originally had four crouching monsters filling the four corners, three of which still remain.

Exhibitions

• Medieval Games of Love and War. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995-1996.

Provenance Victor Gay, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 23, 1909, no. 76; Jacques Seligmann, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912