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| Keywords: Atelier of the Boxes - Mirror Cover with Lovers Playing Chess and a Dispute between the Sexes - Walters 71206.jpg On this circular mirror back a sequential story is shown in three scenes; above a young couple plays chess at the right a woman threatens a bearded man or hermit with a broom at the left and center the bearded man climbs up to a house still threatened by the broom-wielding woman The scenes are surrounded by an eight-lobed frame adorned with masks A similar unidentified story concerning an elder and young couple is represented on Walters 71 283 an ivory box attributed to the Atelier of the Boxes The mirror back likely was made in the same workshop middle Other date century 14 Medieval ivory cm 9 5 accession number 71 206 6180 Henry Walters Baltimore 1929 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Images in Ivory Precious Objects of the Gothic Age The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997 place of origin north France Walters Art Museum license French carved ivory mirror cases in the Walters Art Museum 14th-century carved ivory mirror cases Atelier of the Boxes Chess players in ivory Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
