Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1887.19.

Ivory

Height: 87mm
Width: 52mm
Depth: 4.5mm
Weight: 21.95g

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; cruciform halo; sun and moon.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

Koechlin Number: 0422

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of two layers of polychromy.

Reverse
The reverse side is slightly recessed.

Object Condition
Three holes along the right side, possibly to transform the tablet into a diptych at a certain time. Two holes in the centre, in the upper part of the tablet.

Comments
Rounded edges.

Provenance
Purchased for 125 Swiss Francs from Alb. Sattler in Basel in 1887.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 201, 205; II, no. 422.

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