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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 379

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 54mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; soldier holding a sword; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; rugged cross; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Brussels 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 272.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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