Gothic Ivories Project | Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Writing tablet, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 102 mm
Width: 59 mm

Presentation in the Temple; Virgin and Simeon holding Christ; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; chalice on the altar; clouds.
Stars, rosettes and incised trefoils in the gables. Rosettes in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Circular recess on the reverse.

Provenance
Collection of the marquis Saint Levé d'Anguerre. Sotheby's, New York, 14 June 1996, lot 54. Sotheby's, New York, 23 September 1998, lot 104. Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 48; private collection, London: Sotheby's, London, 8 December 2006, lot 3.

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