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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.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 95mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist kneeling; onlookers including soldiers; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; two angels collecting the blood of Christ in chalices; Adam rising from a tomb and collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; pinnacles; border of dentils.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed with a raised border.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: part of the left side; upper left corner. Two holes drilled into the back.

Provenance
Collection of A. P. Weston Esquire; Sotheby's, London, 18 May 1967, lot 29.


Image

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