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Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Montpellier, Musée Fabre

Inv. D61.1.16 (unlocated)

Ivory

Height: 100 mm
Width: 70 mm

Crucifixion; sword piercing the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; two angels crying.
Pierced trefoils; border of dentils.

D'Albenas 1898: 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Dr. Calixte Cavalier; his bequest to the Bibliothèque municipale in 1898; on deposit at the Museum since 1961.

Bibliography
G. d'Albenas, Catalogue raisonné des objets d'art et de curiosité des tableaux, dessins et miniatures légués par le Dr C. Cavalier (Montpellier, 1898), no. 15.
J. Malo-Renault, Bibliothèque de Montpellier. A propos de quatre ivoires médiévaux...(1938), p. 193 (with ill.).


Image

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