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

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

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 18

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 63mm
Depth: 5mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; saint John the Evangelist covering his face with his hand.
Pinnacles.


Koechlin Number: 0595

Witte 1912: Germany, end of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Two later drilled holes in the upper part of the panel.
The lower left corner broke off and was put back into place.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Frankfurt (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 93, pl. 83, no. 4.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 220-225; II, no. 595.


Image

Foto: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.

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