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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Liège, Le Grand Curtius

GC.ADC.02d.1910.66396 (MAAD 1910/Mx/1475)

Ivory

Height: 86mm
Width: 47mm

Standing veiled female saint holding a pyxis or ointment pot (possibly saint Clare or saint Mary Magdalene); standing Virgin and Child; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei).
Incised trefoils.

KIK/IRPA database (in 2009): English, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Paris, end of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Painted haloes.

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Inscription: 'Mx. 1475'.

Object Condition
Two holes on the right side. Part of the border is missing on the left side at the back.

Provenance
Donation of S. Moxhon in 1910 to the Musée d'Archéologie et d'Arts Décoratifs, which became the Département d'Arts Décoratifs of the Grand Curtius in 2009.

Bibliography
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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