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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 3210

Wood (backing);ivory

Height: 82 mm
Width: 44 mm
Depth: 3 mm (ivory only)

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany (?), end of the 14th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left (later).

Reverse
Wooden panel glued to the back.

Object Condition
Worn.
Holes on the left side suggesting the panel was at some point changed into a diptych wing.

Provenance
From Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts in Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1926.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 126.


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