Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (writing tablet?), 2 registers, 4 ogee arches across (tablette à écrire, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (writing tablet?), 2 registers, 4 ogee arches across (tablette à écrire, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (writing tablet?), 2 registers, 4 ogee arches across (tablette à écrire, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 110 mm
Width: 68 mm

Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; midwife placing a pillow under the Virgin's head; sheep.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.
Foliated decoration. Bands of quatrefoils. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 0343

Koechlin 1924: England (?), 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.

Object Condition
Missing: part of border on left side.

Provenance
On the art market in Orléans in 1905.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, 177, 187, 211, II, no. 343, III, pl. LXXVIII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 130 and no. 134.

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