Plaquette. Front d'une tablette à écrire.
A French 14th-century writing tablet.
Depicting Christ on the Cross, surrounded by saints underneath a triple-arched canopy.
Carved ivory. Mounted on a wooded frame covered in green velvet.
With a European CITES certificate no.: 2022/BE03929/CE.
A similar writing tablet is housed at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum (inv. KK 870) in Aachen.
Provenance:
Private collection Rotterdam
8.5 x 6 cm (12 x 9.5 cm)