Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Stuttgart, Landesmuseum Württemberg

Inv. WLM 1968-764

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 70mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy Women; Saint John the Evangelist; onlookers; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Pointed trefoils; pinnacles.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding on the architecture and background.

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

Provenance
Collection Edwin Oppler, Hannover: his sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 25 February 1913, lot 140; purchased in 1913 by the Landesgewerbemuseum at the Oppler sale; transferred to the Württembergische Landesmuseum Stuttgart in 1968.

Bibliography
Königliches Landesgewerbemuseum, Bericht über das Jahr (Stuttgart, 1913), p. 61, fig. 55.

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