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Mirror Case with the Virgin and Saints
(Renaissance Europe )
The figures stand within a trefoil of tracery with rose terminals. The crowned Virgin, in voluminous drapery, holds the naked Christ Child between Mary Magdalen and Saint James Major. The background is plain, and the circular form is brought to a square with four corner leaves, carved in relief and incised with veins.
Mirror cases with religious subjects are rare.
There is a hole at the lower edge from a flaw in the ivory and a drilled hole in the upper left leaf.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Frédéric Spitzer, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, April 17, 1893, lot 123; Léon Gruel, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Italy (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 2 7/8 x W: 2 11/16 in. (7.3 x 6.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
71.282