Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 95 mm
Width: 60 mm

Seated Virgin and Child; two kneeling angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Pinnacles.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Holes in three corners of the panel.

Provenance
Probably collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 288 (description and measurements correspond). Drouot, Paris, 11 July 1985, lot 181. Sotheby's, New York, 10 December 1992, lot 36.

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