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Writing tablet, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles; tablette à écrire) (Front)
Writing tablet, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 51mm

Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; angel swinging a censer.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.Pointed trefoils.


Koechlin Number: 0318 (?)

Koechlin 1924 (see Comments field): France, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 7 compartments, the central one being circular.

Object Condition
Hole in the middle of the upper quatrefoil.

Comments
This piece is likely to correspond to Koechlin 318, although Koechlin described as possibly the left wing of a diptych.

Provenance
Collection Otto Wessner, Saint Gall, in 1924 (if we accept this is Koechlin 318). Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2005, lot 16. On the art market in Belgium, in 2011.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 318 (?).


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