Gothic Ivories Project | Weights and scale box, 2 registers, 6 arches across (boîte à poids et à balance; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Weights and scale box, 2 registers, 6 arches across (boîte à poids et à balance; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Weights and scale box, 2 registers, 6 arches across (boîte à poids et à balance; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Front, WA2013.1.4.1

Back, WA2013.1.4.1

Back, WA2013.1.4.2

Front, WA2013.1.4.2

Links

Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
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Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Inv. WA2013.1.4

Ivory

Height: 107 mm
Width: 64 mm (each)
Depth: 4 mm

Lid
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Register 2: Funeral procession of the Virgin; the high priest Jechonias is punished for trying to overturn Mary's bier: his hands stick to it; apostles.
Border of dentils.
Bottom
Register 1: Assumption (Virgin brought to Heaven by angels); clouds.
Annunciation of the Virgin's death by an angel (Gabriel) with a palm branch; unidentified scenes.
Register 2: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); apostles; Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.

Wellby 2009: France, c. 1350-1370.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Lid: recessed with raised border.
Bottom: inside with compartments for the weights and scale. Smoothed.

Comments
Tablet 2 (Assumption) used to be the bottom part of the box: traces of the compartments are still visible.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 14 December 1977, lot 41. Collection of Michael Sinclair Wellby (b. 1928, d. 2012): his bequest to the Museum in 2013.

Bibliography
M. Wellby, The Wellby Collection (unpublished, 2009), no. 2c, crossed out to be changed to 4.

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