Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablets, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablets, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire) (Back)

Writing tablets, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire) (Back)

View other images of this object

Front

Links

Subject
Religious. Passion.

Repository Institution
www.ago.net

To purchase an image
www.ago.net

Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

71331

Ivory

Height: 109mm
Width: 73.8mm (each)
Depth: 7.9mm
Weight: 66-67g (each)

Tablet, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Tablet, right
Register 1: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Lowden 2008 and Museum's opinion 2008: French (Paris), c. 1350-1375.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Provenance
Thomson collection, Toronto: bought, Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, 20 June 2005; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 26.

Image

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.

Please remember to acknowledge any use of the site in publications and lectures as: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk', followed by the date you accessed the site.