Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7764

Ivory

Height: 104mm
Width: 61mm
Depth: 4mm

Register 1: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; sheep.
Trefoils in the spandrels.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Mosan (?), early 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax.

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part.

Provenance
Collection of Édouard Corroyer, Paris (d. 1904); gift of Mrs Édouard Corroyer, 1905.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 243.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 84, in relation to no. 12.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 130 and no. 134.

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