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Panel (possibly fragment of a diptych), 1 register (plaquette) (Front)
Panel (possibly fragment of a diptych), 1 register (plaquette) (Front)
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Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 679

Ivory

Height: 89mm
Width: 42mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel holding a candlestick.

Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Rounded edges. Cancelled red ink inscription: 542.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part and right side of the panel.
Drilled hole in the lower left corner.

Comments
This fragment may have come from the left wing of a diptych.

Provenance
Acquired by the Kunstkammer in Bologna in 1844.

Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 96.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), pp. 38-39, pl. 55.


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