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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.95 (Dalton 352)

Ivory;metal (mounts)

Height: 84mm
Width: 50mm
Depth: 5mm (each, with frame)
Weight: 60.2g (each)

Tablet 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; onlookers.
Tablet 2: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; hanging lamp.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Dalton 1909: France, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Metal mounts. Inscriptions (on the reverse of each): 'Two X WM', '78'.

Object Condition
Heavily cracked.

Comments
Both tablets are in metal mounts, with a loop for suspension.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890): bought from him by the Museum in 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 352, Pl. LXVII.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 84, in relation to no. 12.

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