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Panel (probably writing tablet), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (probably writing tablet), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.249

Ivory

Height: 98mm
Width: 58mm

Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with Holy Women.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.
Incised trefoils.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: German (Westphalia?), 1400-1420.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Traces of having had a metal frame.
Broken at the upper left corner (repaired).

Comments
According to Randall (1985), possibly half of a diptych which was mounted in silver, or was used as a pax.

Provenance
Edouard Aynard collection, Lyon: sold, Paris, 1 December 1913, lot 179. Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris in 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 316.


Image

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