Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess
1325–1350
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess, 1325–1350. France, Paris. Ivory; diameter: 10.2 x 1 cm (4 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1940.1200 Chess was a wildly popular pastime among the nobility, and was also an important element in medieval romantic literature. Who do you think is winning this game?
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ivory
- Formatted Medium
- ivory
- Medium
- ivory
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 10.2 x 1 cm (4 x 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1940.1200
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Juxtapositions, Treasures of Medieval France, Images in Ivory: Precious Objects from the Gothic Age, Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain, Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, "Late Medieval Art," October 31-November 26, 1958, cat. p. 8, no. 1.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 106C Medieval Treasury
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