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accession number: 1940.1200
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Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess, 1325–1350. France, Paris. Ivory; diameter: 10.2 x 1 cm (4 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1940.1200
title: Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess
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creation date: 1325–1350
creation date earliest: 1325
creation date latest: 1350
current location: 106C Medieval Treasury
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: France, Paris
technique: ivory
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Gothic
type: Ivory
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measurements: Diameter: 10.2 x 1 cm (4 x 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Juxtapositions
opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00
Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
title: Treasures of Medieval France
opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00
Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967).
title: Images in Ivory: Precious Objects from the Gothic Age
opening date: 1997-03-07T00:00:00
Images in Ivory: Precious Objects from the Gothic Age. The Detroit Institute of Arts (organizer) (March 7-May 11, 1997); The Walters Art Museum (June 21-August 31, 1997).
title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00
Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).
title: Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain
opening date: 2016-10-09T00:00:00
Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9, 2016-February 26, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, "Late Medieval Art," October 31-November 26, 1958, cat. p. 8, no. 1.', 'opening_date': '1958-10-31T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Longhurst, M.H. "The Eumorfopoulos Collection, Western Objects, II" Apollo 3 (May, 1926).
page number: p. 262
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Burlington Fine Arts Club, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress). Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory. London: Priv. Print. for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923.
page number: no. 144
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Burlington Fine Arts Club, and J. G. Mann. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Gothic Art in Europe (C. 1200-C. 1500). London: Priv. Print. for the Burlington fine arts club, 1936.
page number: no. 109, pl. XXV
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Williamson, George Charles. The Book of Ivory. London: F. Muller, 1938.
page number: p. 163
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Cheney, Thomas L. "A French Ivory Mirror-Back of the Fourteenth Century." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 8 (1941).
page number: pp. 124-5
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140943
Art News (November 15-30, 1941).
page number: p. 30
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Cheney, Thomas L. "A French Ivory Mirror-Back fo the Fourteenth Century," Art Quarterly (Autumn 1941).
page number: pp. 333, 340-1
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Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 206-207; cat.no. V-18
url: https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance
Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee. The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 6-7 May 1972. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975.
page number: pp. 139-41
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Wack, Mary Frances. Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
page number: p. 69, fig. 3.6
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Randall, Richard H. The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993.
page number: p. 123, cat. no. 184
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Barnet, Peter. Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 232-233
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"Front Matter." Speculum 78, no. 2 (2003).
page number: cover
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20060635
Dressler, Rachel Ann. Of Armor and Men in Medieval England: The Chivalric Rhetoric of Three English Knights' Effigies. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004.
page number: fig. 63
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page number: cat. 66, p. 186
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Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007.
page number: pp. 202-2, no. 74
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Lam, Lylan. "Les vavles de miroir gothiques: sources littéraires et iconographie" in Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte vol. 74, No. 3 (2011).
page number: pp. 306-9, fig. 5
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Lowden, John, and Alexandra Gerstein. Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery: Complete Catalogue. 2013.
page number: p. 134, fig. 1.5
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Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 142-145; Reproduced: p. 143
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Chiesi, Benedetta. "Avori Gotici." In Gli Avori del Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 199 -332. Ilaria Ciseri, et.al. Milano,Italia: Officina libraria, 2018.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned; p. 297
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Kopp, V. & E. Lapina, "Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance". Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600) Volume 8, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2020.
page number: pp. 221-23, 225, 230-31
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