Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM (47) mim. LlDOR COVER or A CIRCULAR MIRROR CASE -IN C ARVED I VQR Y _ FREINC H ? tEARLY p*rt OF l + T» CENT. DlAM? 5l S K ,M.(N°l6l^ FECIT. MIRROR CASE. IVORY. No. 1617—1855. THERE are several good examples of mediaeval ivory mirror cases inthe Museum, and this is one of the finest. Probably of French art, itmay possibly, nevertheless, be attributed without rashness to an Englishsculptor. The date is of the best period of the fourteenth century. The mirror cases of the
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM (47) mim. LlDOR COVER or A CIRCULAR MIRROR CASE -IN C ARVED I VQR Y _ FREINC H ? tEARLY p*rt OF l + T» CENT. DlAM? 5l S K ,M.(N°l6l^ FECIT. MIRROR CASE. IVORY. No. 1617—1855. THERE are several good examples of mediaeval ivory mirror cases inthe Museum, and this is one of the finest. Probably of French art, itmay possibly, nevertheless, be attributed without rashness to an Englishsculptor. The date is of the best period of the fourteenth century. The mirror cases of the middle ages were either in two parts, almostalways round, which screwed or fitted closely one within the other, forminga front and cover: or they were made of a single piece of ivory or wood,&c. (as the material might be), with a hollow cut out at the back for theglass or metal which formed the mirror. It is not known when glass wasintroduced instead of the earlier metallic mirror : very probably about theyear 1200. Ladies using mirrors at their toilets frequently are to be met within illuminations of manusc
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