Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (probably a writing tablet), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (probably a writing tablet), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (probably a writing tablet), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity (Virgo Lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; swaddled Christ; sheep.
Masks in the spandrels.

Lázaro Galdiano 1927: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Formerly in the collection of J. Lázaro Galdiano, at least until 1927.

Bibliography
J. Lázaro Galdiano, La Colección Lázaro (Madrid, 1927), II, p. 194, no. 667.

Image

Out of Copyright. From J. Lázaro Galdiano, La Colección Lázaro, vol. II (Madrid, 1927).

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