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

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

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Subject
Religious.

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

107370

Ivory

Height: 83.9mm
Width: 51.5mm
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 23g

Adoration of the Magi; Virgin holding flowers.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

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


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. Inscription: 'Triptych or devotional tablet about 14th-century'.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Sir George Warner (b. 1845, d. 1936), keeper of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian at the British Museum, and thence by descent. Sotheby's, London, 21 April 2004, lot 1; Sam Fogg, London; Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired from Sam Fogg, London, 28 April 2004; since 2008 Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.


Image

The Thomson Collection © 2010, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

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