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

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 444bis

Ivory

Height: 81mm
Width: 46mm
Depth: 3mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils.

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


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with some crosshatching. Traces of a raised border (?).
Label with inscription: '39'.

Object Condition
Broken in two pieces down the middle.

Comments
This panel was probably one of the outer covers of a set of writing tablets; the other outer cover of this same set was probably Inv. 444, also in Bayonne (see related objects). These panels have recessed borders.

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. 444.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1027.
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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