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Writing tablet (tablette à écrire)

Writing tablet (tablette à écrire)
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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 383A; Inv. V. 383B

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 50mm (each)

Flat and smooth.

Museum's opinion 2011: 15th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed with vertical division. Green staining.

Object Condition
Vertical crack down Inv. 383A.

Comments
These are two inner panels from a set of writing tablets, although it is not sure that they belong together.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 262.


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