Inv. Pl.O. 371
Register 1: saint Peter holding a key.
Register 2: archangel Gabriel (part of an Annunciation scene).
Register 3: two adoring Magi (part of an Adoration of the Magi scene).
Stafski 1965: German or Northern French, middle of the 14th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern France (?), c. 1350.
Nuremberg 2000: France (Paris?), c. 1350-1370.
Stafski 1965: Northern France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Nuremberg 2000: France (Paris?), c. 1340-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Gilding: hair and beards, robes, attributes, crown, wings, crockets, medallions.
Polychromy: lining of the robes (red, green); between the spandrels (blue).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the gable.
Holes in the spandrels of the second and third registers.
Comments
This panel was originally the outer left wing of a polyptych (tabernacle) with the Virgin and Child in its centre (Stafski 1965).
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. 56.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 632.
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. 239-240, no. 215.
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