Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Passion.

Private collection, Spain (2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 75mm
Depth: 7mm

Register 1: Buffeting of Christ; head of Christ covered by a cloth. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity; Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Pointed trefoils.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed for wax.

Object Condition
Upper right corner damaged.

Provenance
Private collection, Belgium; private collection, Spain: bought, Finch & co., 1 September 2008, lot 101.

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