Gothic Ivories Project | Bottom of a box for goldsmith scales and weights, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

Bottom of a box for goldsmith scales and weights, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

Bottom of a box for goldsmith scales and weights, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

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Back, frame

Front

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Silver (later frame);ivory

Height: 95 mm
Width: 55 mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and soldier holding a shield; shield decorated with a star.
Pointed trefoils; border of dentils.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Traces of the compartments for the weights and scale.
Incised inscription on the back of the frame: 'seculo XV'.

Object Condition
Upper edge chipped.

Provenance
Sotheby's, Paris, 9 April 2008, lot 40. Birmingham sale, 15 September 2014, lot 202. Christie's, 28 January 2015, lot 715.

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