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Panel (probably writing tablet), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire); converted into a diptych (Back)

Panel (probably writing tablet), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire); converted into a diptych (Back)
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Subject
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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1977.82.

Ivory

Height: 116mm
Width: 58mm
Depth: 4.9mm
Weight: 35.95g

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pinnacles.

Museum's opinion 2010: Italian (?), 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Several drilled holes (modern).

Comments
This panel and another depicting the Virgin and Child (1977.81.) originally were the covers of a set of writing tablets which were later transformed into a diptych.

Provenance
Given to the museum by Dr August Meyer, Basel, in 1977.


Image

© Historisches Museum Basel. Photograph Ph. Emmel.

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