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Panel (fragment of a box), 1 register (plaquette; boite) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a box), 1 register (plaquette; boite) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

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Vic, Museu Episcopal de Vic

Inv. MEV 8769

Ivory

Height: 42 mm
Width: 28 mm

Saint Apollonia holding a pair of pincers and a martyr's palm; tooth.
Crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2013: Italian (?), 14th-15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair, background), green (border, palm), red (lips) and blue (clothing).

Reverse
Flat.

Object Condition
Several holes to attach this plaquette to a wooden background.

Comments
This panel probably comes from the same box as two other panels in the Vic collection (Inv. MEV 8768 and Inv. MEV 8770).

Provenance
From Valladolid. Acquired by the Museum in 1931.


Image

© Museu Episcopal de Vic. Photography: Joan M. Díaz.

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