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Mirror Case with the Gift of the Rose
(Medieval Europe )
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.
Provenance
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Collection of Caspar and Stephen Bourgeois, Cologne; Bourgeois Frères Sale, Cologne, October 19, 1904, no. 1082. Collection of Georges Hoentschel [1855-1915], Paris. Puchased by Henri Daguerre, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
Exhibitions
| 2009 | Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Italy, Milan
(Place of Origin)
Italy, Lombardy (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 4 1/4 x W: 4 in. (10.8 x 10.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
71.281