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Secular.

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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. B 266

Ivory (probably walrus ivory)

Height: 65mm

Seated queen.
Back of the throne decorated with foliated decoration (interlace).

Museum's opinion 2013: Cologne (?), 13th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the throne with foliated decoration (interlace).

Object Condition
Missing: left hand; face and crown chipped.
Throne damaged.

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.

Bibliography
Die Sammlung Clemens, ed. by B. Klesse, H.-U. Haedeke and H. Griese, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1963, no. 102, p. 26.

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