Gothic Ivories Project | 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)

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

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Uden, Museum voor religieuze Kunst

Inv. MRK 7090 (formerly Inv. BM 198)

Ivory

Height: 65mm
Width: 45mm
Depth: 4mm

Adoration of the Magi.

Utrecht 1987: France (?), last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks. Pierced with two holes, one on either side of the central arch. A vertical crack at the top left.

Provenance
Gift of Mgr Dr. Thomas Goossens (b. 1882, d. 1970), Tilburg, in 1933.

Bibliography
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht... [plates volume of objects on display], Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, 1987, no. 45.

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