Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire) (Front)

Gabled writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire) (Front)

Gabled writing tablet, 1 register, 1 arch across (tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 80mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; musician shepherd holding a shawm; angel holding a scroll; sheep.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the panel. Vertical cracks.

Comments
This panel probably was originally oblong and the upper corners were shaved to give it a gabled shape.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 14.

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