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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Münster, Stadtmuseum Münster

SK-0253-2

Ivory

Height: 139mm
Width: 82-84mm
Depth: 11-12mm
Weight: 172.4g

Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls. Angels crying in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2011: Paris, around 1300


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.

Object Condition
Vertical hairline cracks.

Comments
Set within a modern black moulded wood-frame (not photographed). The frame dates from c. 1700, with the old inventory number on the back, 'Slg.-Nr.428'.

Provenance
Part of the Plettenberg Collection; purchased by Stadtmuseum Münster with funds from the Stadt Münster, the Kulturstiftung der Länder, the Stifung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien, and the Siemens Kunststiftung.

Bibliography
H. Krohm, 'Die mittelalterliche Elfenbeine' in KulturStiftung der Länder, Patrimonia, 193 (2001), pp. 6-36, figs. 6, 7, 12.


Image

© Stadtmuseum Münster. Photography: Tomasz Samek.

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