Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (from a devotional booklet or a set of writing tablets), 1 register, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (from a devotional booklet or a set of writing tablets), 1 register, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (from a devotional booklet or a set of writing tablets), 1 register, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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London, Victoria and Albert Museum

162-1896

Ivory

Height: 98 mm
Width: 60 mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Pinnacles.

Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1340-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: red (architectural details, angels' robes), gold (halo).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Long vertical crack to the right of Virgin.

Provenance
Purchased by the museum from Henry Willett, Brighton in 1896.

Bibliography
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 122.

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