Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 6 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 6 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 6 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Romance.

Repository Institution
www.smb.spk-berlin.de

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 7845 (almost completely destroyed)

Ivory

Height: 101mm
Width: 60mm

Fountain of Youth. Old and young; cripples; old man in a wheelbarrow; couples bathing; couples watching from the battlements and from houses.

Volbach 1923: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: France, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: four fragments have survived.

Provenance
Given to the Museum in 1918; undocumented after 7 April 1945; four fragments have survived and were returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.

Bibliography
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), pp. 47-48, pl. 56.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 241.

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