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| Keywords: Italian - Mirror Case with the Virgin and Saints - Walters 71282.jpg 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 1st quarter 15th century Renaissance ivory cm 7 3 6 8 accession number 71 282 2516 Frédéric Spitzer Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sale Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim April 17 1893 no 123 Léon Gruel Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1922 place of origin north Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian carved ivory mirror cases in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 15th-century carved ivory mirror cases | ||||
