Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum

1929.8.240.13

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 51mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; praying Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: Flemish (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse of the panel divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular.

Object Condition
Some features of the figures are worn.

Provenance
Gift of John Gellatly in 1929.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 125.

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