Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (possibly writing tablet), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (possibly writing tablet), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (possibly writing tablet), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 55mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; soldier in armour.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Virgin and Holy Women.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel. Hole in each of the lower corners.

Provenance
Possibly collection of Prof. Gilbert: his sale, 29-30 November-1 December 1927, lot 17 (no ill.). Simon Goldschmidt collection: sale Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1952, lot 107, pl. VI. Christie's, Geneva, 16 November 1978. Sotheby's, London, 10 March 1983, lot 20.

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