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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 76mm
Width: 48mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1997, lot 35.

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