Inv. MA 2028
Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria with broken wheel and martyr's palm; crown.
Berliner 1926: France, 1st half of the 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: France or Italy, c. 1400.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (beards and hair; on the parchment in the background)
Reverse
Wooden panel. Chamfered slot for a handle (which would indicate this piece was used as a pax) or for a stand.
Blue and white label with inscription: '386' or '388'. Ink inscription 'Nr. 1405.
Blue and white label with inscription: '3371. EC = EE. C'.
Printed label: 'K. VI. 1395'.
Object Condition
Crack between the Virgin and saint Catherine. Crack in the lower border between saint John the Baptist and the Virgin.
Hole in each corner of the frame.
Comments
In a frame decorated with inlays.
Provenance
Acquired before 1867, possibly on the art market.
Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1395, pl. XXIX.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 61.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 135 n. 58).
J. Thinesse, Appendix zum Elfenbeinkatalog Rudolf Berliners, unpublished MA dissertation, Munich, 1977 (Typescript), p. 39.
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