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Braunschweig (Brunswick), Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen, Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum

Elf 27NON WESTERN

Ivory

Height: 400mm
Width: 28mm

Hand; ring.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (?), 16th century (?)


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy: red, green and black (foliated decoration, geometric patterns).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of a finger.

Provenance
Museum founded in 1754 to house the collections of the Dukes of Braunschweig (this piece is mentioned in Inventory H 32 (finished ca. 1798), no. 754: 'Ein Rückenkratzer in Form einer Hand; bunt').

Bibliography
C. Scherer, Die Braunschweiger Elfenbeinsammlung (Leipzig, 1931), no. 27.
Weltenharmonie. Die Kunstkammer und die Ordnung des Wissens, exhibition catalogue, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum, 2000, no. 77 (S. König-Lein).
Lockenpracht und Herrschermacht. Perücken als Statussymbol und modisches Accessoire, ed. by J. Luckhardt and R. Marth, exhibition catalogue, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum, 2006, no. 3.11 (R. Marth).


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