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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.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 85 mm

Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils in the gables and spandrels.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
The panel is broken vertically into two pieces.

Comments
Mounted on a wooden panel.

Provenance
Sotheby's, 13 April 1978, lot 26.


Image

© Neil Stratford British Museum Archive.

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