Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame

MAD IL.56

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 52mm
Depth: 3.5mm

Crucifixion; Virgin and one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2010: late 14th century-early 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Labels: 'kgm 7', '605', '870'.

Object Condition
Very dry.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Bequest of Alexandre Straub (1825-1891), in 1893.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective d'Alsace et de Lorraine, exhibition catalogue, Strasbourg, 1895, p. 41, no. 346.
A. Schricker, Kunstschätze in Elsass-Lothringen (Strasbourg, 1896), p. 15 and pl. 104 .

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