Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.192

Ivory

Height: 124mm
Width: 74mm
Depth: 5mm

Register 1: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; man holding a lantern.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; Visitation.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; twisted columns.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: Flanders, last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Related to the Atelier of the Boxes (Randall 1985)

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

Object Condition
Hole in the upper part for attachment to the other cover and intervening tablets.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters from Arnold Seligmann in Paris in 1926; Walter Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 341.

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