About the Artwork
Writing Tablet
14th century
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French
French
Ivory, with traces of polychromy
4 x 2 1/2 in.
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill
42.136
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Goldschmidt Galleries, Inc. (dealer), New York (until January 1929)
Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit, MI
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F. W. Robinson, "Notes on a French Gothic Writing Tablet," Bulletin of the DIA 22, no. 8 (May 1943), pp. 84-87, p. 85 (ill)
W. R. Levin, Images of Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art, Univerity of Michigan Museum of Art, November 21, 1975-January 4, 1976, no. 74, pl. IV.
P. Barnet, ed., Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, exh. cat., (Detroit 1997), cat. no. 92, pp. 304-305
V. A. Kolve, "Looking at the Sun in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," in D. Minkova and T. Tinkle, ed., Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H.A. Kelly (2003), pp. 37-38, p. 37 (ill)
V.A. Kolve, Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II (Stanford 2009), pp. 5-6, p. 6, fig. I.1 (ill)
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French, Writing Tablet, 14th century, Ivory, with traces of polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill, 42.136.
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