Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.ville-abbeville.fr

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Abbeville, Musée Boucher-de-Perthes

Inv. 1891.7.0.3

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 35mm
Depth: 3mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Delignières 1902: 12th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green in the spandrels.

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

Provenance
Acquired in Abbeville (Somme) in 1853.

Bibliography
E. Delignières, Catalogue du Musée d'Abbeville et du Ponthieu (Paris, 1902), no. 851.

Image

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