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

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

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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. Pl.O. 374

Ivory

Height: 64 mm
Width: 54 mm

Adoration of the Magi.


Koechlin Number: 0476

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


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Illegible inscriptions.

Object Condition
Hole on left side. Vertical crack: broken into two pieces which have been glued together.

Provenance
Acquired before 1856 by the Museum.

Bibliography
S. von Pückler-Limpurg, Nurnberger Bildnerkunst um die Wende des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts (Strasbourg, 1904), p. 18.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 628.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 212; II, no. 476.
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. 249-250, no. 228.
F. M. Kammel, 'Anbetung der Könige', in Die Heiligen Drei Könige. Spätgotische Skulpturen aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg (Monatsanzeiger Sonderausgabe Bonn 1999)(Nuremberg, 1999), p. 12, no. 7.


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