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| Keywords: French - Mirror Cover with the Fountain of Youth - Walters 71170.jpg Originally this ivory plaque was the back for a disk-shaped mirror of polished metal It is carved with a scene of the Fountain of Youth Elderly men and women walk or travel by cart from the left to the mythical Fountain of Youth at the right They bathe and reemerge as young couples who enter into the castle at the center and court above upon the battlements The frame a circle within a square has four crouched dragon-like creatures in each corner ca 1330 1340 Medieval ivory cm 13 12 4 1 accession number 71 170 16990 Count Gregorii Stroganoff Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Léon Gruel Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Images in Ivory Precious Objects of the Gothic Age The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license French carved ivory mirror cases in the Walters Art Museum 14th-century carved ivory mirror cases Fountain of Youth Stroganoff collection of Western art Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
