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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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London, Museum of London

Inv. A4725

Ivory

Height: 69mm
Width: 47mm
Depth: 4mm

Nativity; angel holding a scroll; swaddled Christ.

London 1940: France, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French (?), 14th or 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of red (pigment) in the background of the scene and in the spandrels.

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax. Museum label.

Object Condition
Missing: upper right corner, upper left corner and part of the left border; lower left corner broken. Hole drilled in the lower right corner.

Provenance
Found on the site of Farringdon Market, Farringdon, London (Islington). F. G. Hilton Price collection; purchased by the London Museum in 1913. The London Museum and Guildhall Museum merged in 1976 to form the Museum of London.

Bibliography
Medieval Catalogue, London Museum Catalogues No. 7 (London, 1940), p. 292, pl. LXXXIX.1


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