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

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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S'-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh Castle

Inv. 714

Ivory

Height: 97mm
Width: 61mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; angel holding a scroll; sheep.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels and the gables.

Utrecht 1987: France (?), last quarter of the 14th century.
's-Heerenberg, 2008: Paris or Northern France, end of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

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

Object Condition
Hole in the upper part, probably for attachment to the other cover and intervening tablets.

Provenance
Purchased for the museum by Jan Herman van Heek from Jan Dirven, art dealer, Eindhoven in 1950.

Bibliography
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 43.
A. Kutsch Lojenga-Rietberg, Huis Bergh: kasteel - kunst - geschiedenis (s'-Heerenberg, 2000), p. 134.
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. pp. 44-45), pls. 17-18.


Image

© Collection Dr. J.H. van Heek, Huis Bergh Castle, s'-Heerenberg.

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