Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 454

Ivory

Height: 88mm
Width: 62mm
Depth: 4mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax.

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part of the panel.
Missing: lower right corner.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1103.

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