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

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablettes à écrire) (Front)
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Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum

Inv. 952.52.2

Ivory

Height: 98-100mm
Width: 63mm
Depth: 4mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the gables and spandrels.

Randall 1993: German, 1360-1380.
Museum's opinion 2012: Probably German, 2nd third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
The reverse seems to have originally been recessed to receive wax, with a raised border, which was later intentionally levelled (?).
Extensive traces of glue.

Object Condition
The raised borders on the reverse seem to have been intentionally levelled (?).

Comments
This panel and Inv. 952.52.1, also in the Royal Ontario Museum, formed the covers of a set of writing tablets (see low relief and reverse originally recessed for wax).

Provenance
Emile Baboin collection, Lyon (at least until 1912). Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1952.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 8.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 101.


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