Seated king resting his feet on a lion; king holding an orb; throne decorated with quatrefoils and diamond patterns.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Germany, 2nd half of 14th century.
Barnet 2000 and New York-Prague 2005-2006: Germany (Cologne), 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Germany (Cologne), 2nd half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: black.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: sceptre (?) in the king's right hand; cross (?) on the orb.
Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964), and by descent; Blumka, New York, in 2000 (Collecting Treasures of the Past: The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, New York, 2000, no. 15); acquired thanks to the Pfeiffer Fund in 2000.
Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), I, no. S.37.
P. Barnet, 'Recent Acquisitions' in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 58, no. 2 (2000), p. 19.
Prague: the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Prague Castle, 2005-2006, no. 61 (C. Little).
Glanz und Grösse des Mittelalters, Kölner Meisterwerk aus den grossen Sammlungen der Welt, ed. by D. Täube and M. Verena Fleck, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 4 November 2011-26 February 2012, no. 30.
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