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

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

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

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Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Pl 36:97

Ivory

Height: 87mm
Width: 50mm

Saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a stem of flowers; bird on the flowers; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide.
Tracery; border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 0553bis

Koechlin 1924: German (?), end of 14th century.
Jülich 2007: German (?), c. 1400.

Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Crack in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Probably from the collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 225; II, no. 553bis.
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 48.

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