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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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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 439

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 47mm
Depth: 4mm

Flagellation; Christ tied to the column of the Flagellation; whips.


Koechlin Number: 0501

Gruyer 1902: France, end of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Paris 1930: France, end of 14th century.
Bayonne 2002-2003: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of gilding and polychromy: white and green (gables).

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Traces of green wax and glue.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 439.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 209; II, no. 501.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1022.
J.-G. Lemoine, 'Les 'Tables à pourtraire' du XIVe siècle au Musée Bonnat de Bayonne', in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (année 1963), pp. 7-16 (general considerations).
Le Moyen Âge dans les collections du Musée Bonnat, exhibition catalogue, Bayonne, Musée Bonnat, 15 December 2002-30 June 2003, p. 15.


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