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

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

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

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Front

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Subject
Religious.

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Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 68mm

Nativity and annunciation to the shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes; angel holding a scroll; sheep.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0459

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
The back is divided in compartments. The one at the top right corner is round.

Object Condition
Worn.
The edges seem to have been shaved.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris: sale, Drouot, Paris, 14-15 April 1910, lot 27 (purchased by Fitzhenry).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 211; II, no. 459.

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