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

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

Back

Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 376A; Inv. 376B

Ivory

Height: 103mm
Width: 57mm (each)

376A: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls. 
376B: Saint Peter holding a key; standing Virgin and Child; saint Paul with a sword.
Brickwork or tiled roof.


Koechlin Number: 0584

Koechlin 1924 and Brussels 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax with a raised border.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 207, 217, 224; II, no. 584.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 276.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


Image

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