Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablettes à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablettes à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablettes à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1977.83.

Ivory

Height: 101mm
Width: 58mm
Depth: 6.3mm
Weight: 47.46g

Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled child.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris?), 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets.

Provenance
Given to the museum by Dr August Meyer, Basel, in 1977.

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