Christopher Snow Hopkins

The object​ at the centre of Medieval Multiplied: A Gothic Ivory and Its Reproductions, at the Courtauld Gallery until 16 February, is a 14th-century ivory mirror case, carved in relief, showing knights laying siege to a castle defended by maidens. On the left of the scene, a knight in chainmail climbs a rope ladder fastened to a battlement. He has lost his helmet but is on the cusp of...