Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers (tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers (tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers (tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2015)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 106mm
Width: 50mm

Register 1: monks teaching (?).
Register 2: Mass of saint Gregory (?); clerics; angel holding a candlestick; angel swinging a censer; clouds.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of hinges (visible from the back).

Reverse
Recessed with a raised border.
Label with ink inscription: '1306'.

Provenance
Hermann Baer, London; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 27; private collection, London.

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