Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

N/a

Ivory

Height: 92mm
Width: 49mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Incised scrolls in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Pierced by three holes at the top centre. Crack in the lower part.

Provenance
Blumka Gallery, New York, in 2012 ('Collecting Treasures of the Past VII', exhibition catalogue, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-10 February 2012, New York, no. 14).

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