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Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
Writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Pesaro, Biblioteca e Musei Oliveriani

Inv. 3849 (3703)

Bone

Height: 82mm
Width: 44mm
Depth: 2mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm; Virgin holding the left hand of Christ; angel holding a scroll.
Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2013: 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed with a raised border. Scratched. Pen inscription: '3703'.

Object Condition
Worn. Missing: part of the background. Pierced at the top with two holes for suspension. The right part has broken off and been glued back into place.

Provenance
Collection of Annibale degli Abbati Olivieri Giordani (b. 1708, d. 1789); donated by him in 1756 to the city of Pesaro.

Bibliography
A. Degli Abbati Olivieri, Di alcune antichità cristiane conservate in Pesaro nel Museo Olivieri (Pesaro, 1784), p. VII.
Atlante del Gotico nelle Marche. Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino (Milan, 2004), I, pp. 118-119 (B. Montevecchi).


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