Mirror-case back with two lovers meeting
On display
Details
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Title
Mirror-case back with two lovers meeting
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Associated place
England (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
14th century (1301 - 1400) -
Material and technique
ivory; metal
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Object type
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Dimensions
Vertical: 9.55 cm (diameter)
Horizontal: 9.19 cm (diameter)
0.97 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Elias Ashmole in 1677, from the Tradescant collection.
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Museum location
Lower ground floor | Gallery 2 | The Ashmolean Story -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1685.A.585
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Further reading
MacGregor, Arthur, ed., Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum 1683 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), 231, pl. CXVI
Hook, M., and MacGregor, Medieval England - Archaeological Collections in the Ashmolean Museum from Alfred the Great to Richard III (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1997), 56, illus. 56, fig.74
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), 163, p.564, illus. p.564
