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| Keywords: French - Mirror Case with the Castle of Love - Walters 71167.jpg Within a frame of eight lobes two couples appear below the Castle of Love from which the God of Love winged and crowned throws arrows down upon them The youth on the left is crowned by his lady while the right-hand pair embrace Kneeling figures are shown on the battlements on eigher side of the God of Love The men wear capes and hoods over the cote-hardis; the cote-hardis of the women have liripipes at the elbows The circular format is brought to a square with triangles of leaves at the corners incised with veins The carving is very rough in quality 2nd half Other date century 14 Medieval ivory of the object by Viollet-le-Duc Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 Medieval Games of Love and War The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 Romance of the Rose Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2009 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license French carved ivory mirror cases in the Walters Art Museum 14th-century carved ivory mirror cases Men touching women's breasts in art Assault on the Castle of Love | ||||
