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Writing tablet, 2 registers, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 96mm
Width: 45mm
Depth: 3mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: circular recessed compartment.
Incised trefoils.


Koechlin Number: 0424

Koechlin 1924 and Swarzenski 1929: French, 2nd third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Edges broken in several places.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Passavant-Gontard collection, Frankfurt am Main, in 1929 (said to have been acquired in 1872 in Lyons): sale, Berlin, 5 December 1929. Collection of Baron Robert von Hirsch: Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 280. Dormeuil collection: Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 2.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 194; II, no. 424 (Passavant-Gontard).
G. Swarzenski, Sammlung R. von Passavant-Gontard (Frankfurt, 1929), no. 76.


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© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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