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

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

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 114

Ivory

Height: 93mm
Width: 43mm
Depth: 4mm

Flight into Egypt; Virgo lactans.
Rosettes.


Koechlin Number: 0498

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 1st quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (modern).

Reverse
Inscription in ink: '2619'.
Recessed to receive the wax.

Object Condition
Missing: part of upper-right edge.

Provenance
Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot collection, Paris (no. 283); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot to the Museum in 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 283.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 56.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 56.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, 209; II, no. 498.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 148.


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