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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1952.95
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Mirror Case with a Noble Couple on a Hunting Party
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Royal Couple Hunting
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1300-1350
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228831

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ivory
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
12.7 x 12.7 x 1.6 cm (5 x 5 x 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: reverse, graphite, handwritten: 174
  • label: reverse, black ink, handwritten: 5
  • label: reverse, black ink: H. Oppenhei[mer]
  • label: reverse, black ink, typewritten: [over another printed label:] J-190 / [C]ARVE[D I]VORY / MI[R]ROR [CAS]E

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Watkins Brett, Burleigh House, London, sold; [Christie's, Manson and Woods, London, 18 April 1864, lot 2003], to; Rhodes. Whitehead, sold; [London?, 14 March 1906, lot 10]. Henry Oppenheimer, London, sold; [Christie's, London, 16 July 1936, lot 174]. William Randolph Hearst, New York, through; [J.F. Hayward] to; [Blumka Gallery, New York] to; Fogg Art Museum, 1952.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund
Accession Year
1952
Object Number
1952.95
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club (London, 1923), no. 143, repr. pl. XL
  • Raymond Koechlin, Les Ivoires Gothiques Français, A. Picard (Paris, 1924), p. 377n, repr.
  • Claire Batigne, Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 1932), no. 580r
  • Harry Bober, "French Gothic Ivory Mirror Case", Fogg Art Museum Annual Report (1953), p. 5; repr. on cover
  • Gothic to Baroque in Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, exh. cat., Allentown Art Museum (Allentown, PA, 1960)
  • Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe 1270 to 1330, exh. cat., Brown University (Providence, RI, 1977), no. 19; repr. p. 63 and on cover
  • Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY, 1993), no. 185, p. 124, repr.
  • Marie-Amelie Carlier, Art Medieval: Exposition a l'occasion du centenaire de Brimo de Laroussilhe, exh. cat. (Paris, 2008), pp. 80-85; repr. in b/w on p. 84.
  • Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, website, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2010, http://www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/5CBA6C60_87a1fae1.html [accessed 7-7-21]

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 01/01/1923 - 12/31/1923
  • Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1932 - 03/05/1932
  • Gothic To Baroque in Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, 10/29/1960 - 12/31/1960
  • Transformations of the Court Style : Gothic Art in Europe 1270 to 1330, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/02/1977 - 02/27/1977
  • Re-View: S422-423 Western Art of the Middle Ages & Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011

Verification Level

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