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

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

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 442

Ivory

Height: 86mm
Width: 53mm
Depth: 5mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, end of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. All but the circular compartment have been filled with blue wax and someone has tried to inscribe characters in the wax.
Pencil inscriptions: '220', '442'. Label with inscription, now detached: '1025'.

Object Condition
Later holes in the upper corners.

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. 442.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1025.
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).


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