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.

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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88259339 (EE100)

Ivory

Height: 132mm
Width: 80mm
Depth: 6mm

Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment pot; saint Christopher; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei).
Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2009: German, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding.

Reverse
Reverse of the Crucifixion scene divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel may originally have been part of a set of writing tablets. Blue and white label with inscription: 'Collection Wernher no. 100'.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

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