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Relief (appliqué; fragment) (Front)

Relief (appliqué; fragment) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. Pl.O. 373

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 69mm

Death of the Virgin (Dormition); angel closing the Virgin's lips; apostles including saint John the Evangelist; Christ holding the Virgin's soul; books; scroll.


Koechlin Number: 0970

Nuremberg 1910: German, c. 1400.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.
Stafski 1965: West Germany, c. 1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (bed).

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Missing: five apostles. Parts of the piece have been cut off.

Provenance
Collection of Freiherr von Aufseß; acquired by the Museum before 1856.

Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 51.
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 51.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 642.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 642.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 214, 345, II, no. 970; III, pl. CLXIX.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), pp. 241-242, no. 219.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Une Pitié Nostre Seigneur d'ivoire', in Festschrift für Peter Bloch zum 11. Juli 1990, ed. by H. Krohm, C. Theuerkauff (Mainz, 1990), pp. 111-119, p. 113, fig. 5.


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