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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Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Pl 36:100

Ivory

Height: 103mm
Width: 69mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; sun and moon.
Register 2: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; two Holy Women; men holding a hammer and nails.

Jülich 2007: Rhenish or Mosan, beginning of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed with a raised border to receive the wax.
Blue and white label with inscription '731'.

Provenance
Probably from the collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum.

Bibliography
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 51.

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