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Statuette; probably originally enclosed in a rosary pendant or part of a reliquary (Front)

Statuette; probably originally enclosed in a rosary pendant or part of a reliquary (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. Pl.O. 379 (lost)

Ivory

Height: 24mm

Saint George and the dragon.

Josephi 1910: 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: possibly 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: spear.

Provenance
Collection of Freiherr Hans von Aufseß; acquired in 1856 by the Museum. Unlocated at present.

Bibliography
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 648.


Image

© Bildarchiv Foto Marburg.

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