Gothic Ivories Project | 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)

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

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London, The British Museum

1877,0706.2 (Dalton 356)

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 56mm
Depth: 4mm
Weight: 18.5g

Assumption; Virgin in clouds borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption); two angels swinging censers.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0523bis

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Ink inscriptions: 'rss. ggs. les 2' and '3346'.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the raised border on reverse.

Provenance
Collection of Hugo Garthe, Cologne; British Museum, by purchase through A.W. Franks, 1877.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 356, PL. LXXXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 214, II, no. 523bis.

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