Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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

Cl. 15915

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 48mm
Depth: 5mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2010: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse of the Crucifixion scene divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Given by Hugues Imbert in 1906.

Image

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