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Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (possibly a writing tablet), 1 register, 3 arches across (tablette à écrire; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Münster, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur (Westfälisches Landesmuseum)

Inv. G 50 WKV

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 49mm
Depth: 3mm

Crucifixion; praying Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; jet of blood or spear striking the Virgin's chest.
Pointed trefoils.

Meier 1914: German, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat. Old label with no inscription.

Object Condition
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Colonel von Franckenberg; acquired by the Westfälischer Kunstverein in 1879; on extended loan from the Westfälischer Kunstverein since 1908.

Bibliography
Westfälischer Altertümer und Kunsterzeugnisse, exhibition catalogue, Münster, Landesmuseum Münster, 1879, no. 941.
Westfälischer Altertümer und Kunsterzeugnisse, exhibition catalogue, Münster, Landesmuseum Münster, 1879, no. 941.
Das Landesmuseum der Provinz Westfalen in Münster, dir. by M. Geisberg, ed. by B. Meier (Berlin, 1914), I: Die Skulpturen, no. 252, pp. 105-106.
Das Landesmuseum der Provinz Westfalen in Münster, dir. by M. Geisberg, ed. by B. Meier (Berlin, 1914), I: Die Skulpturen, no. 252, pp. 105-106.


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