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Writing tablet, 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
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Saint-Quentin, Musée Antoine Lécuyer

L 271

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 64mm
Depth: 4mm

Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; blessing gesture; two angels standing on the sides of the bench, holding navettes and swinging censers.
Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2009: Flanders, 2nd half of the 14th century (based on the opinion of Danièle Gaborit-Chopin, Curator at the Louvre, 2002).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: architectural details.

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Thread held to the back of the tablet by two pieces of molten red wax, probably for hanging. Wooden wedge pasted on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: upper right corner broken.
Cracked. Two holes on the left edge, probably indicating that it was reused at a later stage as the right wing of a diptych.

Provenance
Maybe part of the bequest made by Félix and Josias Le Sérurier in 1883 (museum archives disappeared in 1917).


Image

© Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin.

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