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Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
padovacultura.padovanet.it

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Padua, Musei Civici, Museo d'Arte, Arti Applicate e Decorative

Inv. 156

Ivory

Height: 108mm
Width: 60mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers including one holding a scroll; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Virgin; saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment pot.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, end of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 7 compartments, one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets.
White label in the central compartment containing the handwritten inscription: ‘156’. Blue label in the central compartment containing the handwritten inscription: ‘Mus. Bottacin 9 Ottobre 1895’.

Object Condition
Chipped left border.

Provenance
Collection of Enrichetta Usuelli Ruzza; acquired by the museum in 1895.

Bibliography
A. Moschetti, Il Museo civico di Padova. Cenni storici e illustrativi, Padua 1938, p. 247.


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