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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 full and two half arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 full and two half arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 10.39

Ivory

Height: 44mm
Width: 45mm

Coronation of the Virgin; two angels swinging censers.
Incised trefoils.

Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: North Italian, last quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Comments
The ivory is inset in a book cover (MS. W. 39). This was done when it was rebound by Gruel, a typical antiquarian habit of his workshop.

Provenance
Bought from Léon Gruel in Paris by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
L. M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1989), p. 90, no. 39.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 212.


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