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

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum

Inv. E/22

Ivory

Height: 85 mm
Width: 46 mm
Depth: 4 mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils; border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2014: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Handwritten pencil inscription only partially legible: '[...] 1.14 lt 12764'.
Pink label with the inscription: '53 Legat J. Wieser'.

Object Condition
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Johann von Wieser: his bequest to the museum in 1886.


Image

© Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.

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