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Source Description
Three angels hold a cloth of honor behind the Virgin and two others swing censers at the sides while she is crowned. The scene is placed beneath a canopy of three trefoil arches.The panel is recessed on the reverse to receive wax for writing. It was attached to other panels with two holes in the right side for cords, and a hole in the center of the left side for securing the other tablet or tablets.Although wax tablet covers are usually decorated with secular scenes, a number of others exist with religious subjects which suggests that wax notebooks were used by the clergy as well as the laity.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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40456
label
Wax Tablet with the Coronation of the Virgin
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object
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Source metadata
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40456
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object
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normalized
title
Wax Tablet with the Coronation of the Virgin
description
Three angels hold a cloth of honor behind the Virgin and two others swing censers at the sides while she is crowned. The scene is placed beneath a canopy of three trefoil arches.The panel is recessed on the reverse to receive wax for writing. It was attached to other panels with two holes in the right side for cords, and a hole in the center of the left side for securing the other tablet or tablets.Although wax tablet covers are usually decorated with secular scenes, a number of others exist with religious subjects which suggests that wax notebooks were used by the clergy as well as the laity.
provenance
Léon Gruel, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase [purchased or shipped in 1914]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 14th century (Medieval)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
wax tablets
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 11/16 x W: 2 3/8 D: 3/16 in. (9.3 x 6 x .4 cm)
Source extras
style
Gothic
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ivory
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6229
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MED
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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