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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire; plaquette); reused a pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire; plaquette); reused a pax (baiser de paix) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum

Y1929-36

Ivory;brass (later frame)

Height: 88mm
Width: 53mm (with frame)

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.

Randall 1993: French (North France?), 1340-1360.
Museum files 2010: German, c. 1340-1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the frame.

Object Condition
Original hole in the upper left corner for attachment to other leaves.

Comments
Now mounted in a pax frame.

Provenance
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather, Jr in 1929.

Bibliography
A. St. Clair, E. Parker McLachlan, The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, exhibition catalogue, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989, no. 51.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 91.
Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, The Frick Art Museum, April 1-May 26 1996, Penn State University, The Palmer Museum of Art, January 9-March 3 1996, p. 220.


Image

© Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

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