Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; tablette à écrire) (Front, detail)

Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; tablette à écrire) (Front, detail)

Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; tablette à écrire) (Front, detail)

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Subject
Religious. Passion. Life of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 98 mm
Width: 65 mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls. Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb; tomb decorated with diamond patterns; cross pierced with holes.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; sheep. Adoration of the Magi.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth, possibly with the trace of a raised border. Illegible inscription.
Round label with inscription: '2526'.

Object Condition
Hole in the upper border exiting at the back of the panel.
Vertical crack.

Provenance
Sale, Florence, 15 April 2014, lot 5. On the art market in Belgium, September 2014.

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