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

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

Subject
Religious. Passion.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm

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


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 211.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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