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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. Pl.O. 368

Ivory

Height: 200mm
Width: 80mm
Depth: 55mm

Three Holy Women, probably including the Virgin.


Koechlin Number: 0744

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (robes).

Reverse
Slightly flattened at the back.

Object Condition
Missing: small parts of the robes. Chipped around the base. Bore hole in base.

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

Bibliography
A. von Essenwein, 'Handwerkkunst im 14. Jahrhundert', in Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit (1867).
A. von Essenwein, 'Die Sammlungen des Germanischen Museum', in Mitteilungen der K.K. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale 13 (1868).
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 58.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 634, pl. LXIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 744.
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. 248-249, no. 227.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 115, n. 20).
Fälschung und Forschung, exhibition catalogue, Essen, Museum Folkwang and Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesit, October 1976-March 1977, no. 59 with fig.


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