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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Religious.

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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. 427

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 83mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Beaded border.


Koechlin Number: 0487

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Stuttmann 1966 and Museum's opinion 2013: France, beginning of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
A deep vertical crack on the right side has detached a fragment, held in place by a metal band.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), no. 21.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 212; II, no. 487.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I : Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), no. 117.


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© Museum August Kestner, Germany. Photographer: Christian Tepper.

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