Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet or lid of weights and scale box, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire; boîte à poids et à balance) (Front)

Register 1: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter.
Register 2: Flagellation with Pilate.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets or the lid of a weights and scale box.

Object Condition
In good condition.

Comments
The object is in the style of the Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003).

Provenance
Collection of Louis-Charles Timbal, Paris (no. 53); acquired from him by the Musée du Louvre in 1882.

Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 53.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 83.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 137 (cited).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 208.

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