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Writing tablets, 2 registers, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire); reused as a diptych (Front)

Writing tablets, 2 registers, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire); reused as a diptych (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Silver (later hinges);ivory

Height: 101mm
Width: 62 mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; sheep.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist; onlookers; soldier in armour.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1360-1370.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on either side.

Object Condition
Three holes in the outer edges, probably for a clasp.

Provenance
Collection of E. von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.75, p. 25.


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