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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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Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Ka 310

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 55mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils.

Ulm 1975: French, 1310.
Linz 1992: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This probably indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets.
Traces of glue and red fabric.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks.
Two central holes in the upper part and two in the lower part.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Walther Kastner: his gift to the Museum in 1975.

Bibliography
B. Ulm, Kunstsammlung Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walther Kastner (Linz, 1975), p. 16.
Die Sammlung Kastner, dir. by L. Schultes, exhibition catalogue, Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, 1992, no. 11.


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