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Panel (possibly writing tablet), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (possibly writing tablet), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 95 mm

Ascension; Virgin and apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a book and martyr's palm; clouds.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.
Diapered background.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Object Condition
Two holes along the left side, which seems to have been trimmed.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1981, lot 35.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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