Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. MA 2025 (unlocated)

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 46mm
Depth: 3mm

Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child; unidentified saint holding a book and a martyr's palm.
Tilde roof or brickwork in the gables.

Graf 1896: 14th or 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (in 1896): green and red.

Object Condition
Worn.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1896; disappeared from the collection sometime after 1900.

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1392, pl. XXVIII.

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