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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 445

Ivory

Height: 73mm
Width: 37mm
Depth: 3mm

Adoration of the Magi; angel crowning the Virgin.
Rosettes in the spandrels.

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


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Traces of an unidentified substance. Label with inscriptions: '445', '40'.

Object Condition
Four later holes in the upper and lower parts of the panel. Brown stains.

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. 445.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1028.
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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