Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

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La Spezia, Museo Civico Amedeo Lia

A67

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 62mm
Depth: 4mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; soldier in armour; shield.
Register 2: Flagellation with Pilate.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Giusti 1999: France (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century or 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Slightly curved.
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This seems to indicate that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets

Object Condition
Worn.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 17 July 1980, lot 212. Acquired on the art market, Rome.

Bibliography
P. Giusti in Museo Civico Amedeo Lia: Sculture e oggetti d'arte (I cataloghi del Museo Civico Amedeo Lia), ed. by M. Ratti and A. Marmori (La Spezia, 1999), no. 2.26.

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