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Writing tablets, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes; tablettes à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablets, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes; tablettes à écrire) (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
abbaye-maredret.be

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Maredret, Maredret abbey (Namur province)

Inv. AM-SC-00001

Ivory;metal (later frame)

Height: 84 mm (total)
Width: 95 mm (total)

Panel 1
Saint Peter holding a key; standing Virgin and Child; crown; saint Paul with a sword.
Panel 2
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Pointed trefoils; border of dentils.

Institution's opinion 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Three slight recesses visible in each inner border.

Object Condition
Discolouration on the back probably caused by the wax.

Comments
These panels were mounted as a diptych at a later date.

Provenance
Unknown provenance. The abbey was founded in 1894.


Image

© G. Decoster, 2014.

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