Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.crockerartmuseum.org

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Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum

1960.3.101

Ivory

Height: 82mm
Width: 55mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; Virgin lying with her head to the right; sheep.
Pointed trefoils.

Randall 1993: Flemish or Northern French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (woven cot in the foreground).

Reverse
Not visible.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Gift of Ralph C. and Violette M. Lee in 1960.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 116.

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