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Historical Archive: Mirrors, Mirror Backs, Mirror Cases
Representations follow surviving examples.


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birth of Athena, Etrusco-Italic bronze mirror back fr. Arezzo, 330-310 BCE, Bologna IT 1073. For details see Bologna. 		Click to enlarge.
winged genius, silver, Etruscan c.200-150 BCE, poss. from Chiusi, MFAB 		Click to enlarge.
bone mirror case, 12th c., MoL 4954 		Click to enlarge.
copper alloy mirror back w sphinxes, Kufic inscription, Turkey or Iran? 12th-13th c., Louvre OA 3945 		Click to enlarge.
mirror w sphinxes, Louvre OA 3945, reflective surface
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mirror, transformed tablet reliquary; silver, copper, wood; Mosan c.1200, MRAH V.2132 		Click to enlarge.
ivory mirror case with chess game, Paris c.1300, V&A 803-1891. This work has its own page. 		Click to enlarge.
ivory mirror case with courtly couples, Paris c.1300-30, KGM F 1337 		Click to enlarge.
courting couple: Tristan and Iseult with Ogrin?, ivory mirror back, Paris c.1300-1350, Cluny Cl.383 		Click to enlarge.
scenes of courtly love, ivory mirror back, Paris c.1300-1350, Cluny Cl.401
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mirror-back with courtly couple, 2nd quarter of 14th c. Paris, Louvre. 		Click to enlarge.
dressing table, satinwood/bronze/glass, Charles Plumet and Tony Selmersheim 1896-97, KGM 1897,232 		Click to enlarge.
dressing table, oblique view 		Click to enlarge.
Projecta with mirror: Projecta Casket, silver and gold, c.380, BM 1866,1229.1, which has its own page 		Click to enlarge.
Venus with mirror: Projecta Casket, silver and gold, c.380, BM 1866,1229.1, which has its own page
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center left: life of Dionysus, ivory pyxis, 5th c., Bologna pcr 12, which has its own page 		Click to enlarge.
mermaid with comb and mirror, 13th c., south transept crossing pier of Sens cathedral, which has its own interior page. 		Click to enlarge.
Sens cathedral south transept crossing pier, 13th c. 		Click to enlarge.
demon in Hell holding mirror: Giovanni di Paolo 1460-65, Last Judgment, SPN inv. 172, which has its own page 		Click to enlarge.
Lady and the Unicorn, wool/silk tapestry, c.1500, Cluny. For full panel see Cluny.
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Joan van Noort/Jan van Noordt, Susanna and the Elders c.1660, Utrecht RMCC s75, loan from Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, NK 1700