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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Ka 312

Ivory

Height: 104mm
Width: 63mm

Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Holy Women.
Pointed trefoils; border of dentils.

Linz 1992: Rhenish-Mosan (?), mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Traces of glue and red fabric.

Object Condition
Vertical crack down the right side of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Walther Kastner: his gift to the Museum in 1975.

Bibliography
B. Ulm, Kunstsammlung Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walther Kastner (Linz, 1975), p. 16.
Die Sammlung Kastner, dir. by L. Schultes, exhibition catalogue, Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, 1992, no. 12.
L. Schultes, Die Schenkung Kastner. Part 1, Mittelalter und Barock (Linz, 2010), p. 11.


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