Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess
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Kde je teď „Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess“? Clevelandské muzeum umění, 106C Medieval Treasury, Cleveland. Ano, právě vystaveno. Ověřeno 9. listopadu 2026.
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Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess, dated 1325–1350, is an ivory carving in Cleveland's Museum of Art. The players have been tentatively identified as either Tristan with Iseult or Lancelot with Guinevere. Chess could symbolize love as well as war in medieval imagery. Paris supplied luxury ivories to aristocratic patrons, for whom these objects marked wealth and taste. Mirror backs commonly depicted courtship or chivalry, catering to secular buyers familiar with romances and eager for finely made possessions. On view in gallery 106C.
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During the 1300s, elephant ivory was valued by courtly patrons as the most exquisite material for indicating the human form. At this time Paris was the center of production for luxury ivories like the example seen here. They were
much sought after by members of the court and aristocracy as emblems of wealth and status and signifiers of fashion and taste. This ivory, once forming a mirror back, depicts a man and woman engaged in a game of chess, a popular game at the time representing both love and war in medieval iconography. Various suggestions have been proposed for the identity of the couple—Tristan and Iseult or Lancelot and Guinevere—without certainty. Mirror backs survive in large numbers from the 1300s and typically depict amorous encounters or chivalrous behavior. They were produced for a secular clientele steeped in romantic literature and with an appetite for luxury objects.
Clevelandské muzeum umění
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- 1940.1200
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- Clevelandské muzeum umění
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