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Writing tablets, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles; tablettes à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablets, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles; tablettes à écrire) (Front)
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Secular.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.97

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 57mm
Depth: 4mm
Weight: 26.7g

Register 1: Virgil ridiculed in the basket, hanging from the battlements; revenge of Virgil: men lighting candles at the princess's behind.
Register 2: Alexander approaches Campaspe at the loom; the bribing of Campaspe by Alexander to enchant Virgil; Campaspe and Virgil in bed.

Museum's opinion 2011: French (Paris), mid-14th century


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Modern ink inscription: 'M 573'.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Comments
Similar to a writing tablet in, R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 337.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.


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