Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablets, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire); reused as a diptych (Back)

Writing tablets, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire); reused as a diptych (Back)

Writing tablets, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire); reused as a diptych (Back)

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Front

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29106

Ivory

Height: 78.9mm
Width: 37.9mm (closed); 75.9 (open)
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 16-17g

Panel 1
Register 1: Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and two soldiers asleep.
Register 2: Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory); angels blowing trumpets; Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling; souls rising from their tombs.
Panel 2
Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Museum's opinion 2008: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Holes for later hinges.

Reverse
Recessed with a raised border.

Comments
The aspect of the back of these two panels indicates that they originally were part of a set of writing tablets.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1991, lot 94. Thomson collection, Toronto (acquired, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 13); since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

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