Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (part of a set of writing tablets or lid of a weights and scale box), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (part of a set of writing tablets or lid of a weights and scale box), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (part of a set of writing tablets or lid of a weights and scale box), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Antwerp, MAS|Collection Vleeshuis

AV.1952.008.019

Ivory

Height: 87mm
Width: 51mm
Depth: 4mm

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

Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets or the lid of a weights and scale box.

Provenance
Collection of Prosper Michaux: his bequest in 1952.

Bibliography
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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