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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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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Lund, Universitets Historiska Museum

Inv. LUHM 6410

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 50mm
Depth: 4mm

Crucifixion; Virgin and one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Incised trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2013: German or French, c. 1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel. Green staining on the front of the panel.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
M. Rydbeck, 'Medeltida elfenbensskulpturer i Lunds universitets historiska museum', in Meddelanden från Lunds universitets historiska museum 1931 (Lund, 1931), p. 101, fig. 55, pl. VIII.


Image

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