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

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

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

Inv. 2226

Ivory

Height: 88mm
Width: 60mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); two angels crowning the Virgin; two angels swinging censers and holding navettes, kneeling on the sides of the bench; bench decorated with tracery.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0617

Destrée 1902: France, mid 14th century.
Koechlin 1924 and Brussels 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy: inside the Virgin's veil.

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

Provenance
Unknown.

Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 24 (3785).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 219; II, no. 617.
La Mère et l'enfant dans l'art religieux, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1960, no. 54.
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. 288.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


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