Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.crockerartmuseum.org

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Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum

1960.3.59

Ivory

Height: 79mm
Width: 46mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: German, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth with labels.

Object Condition
Two holes drilled below the upper border.

Provenance
Gift of Ralph C. and Violette M. Lee in 1960.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 123.

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