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Statuette; enclosed in a pendant (fragment of a monstrance) (Front)

Statuette; enclosed in a pendant (fragment of a monstrance) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. G 907

Ivory;silver;glass

Height: 70mm (with glass and silver housing)
Width: 15 mm

Martyrdom of saint Sebastian; tree.

Karlsruhe 1999: Germany (Nuremberg?), c. 1500.
Halle 2006: Nuremberg (?), c. 1500.
Museum's opinion 2013: Germany, c. 1500.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair), red (blood), green (loincloth).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
This pendant comes from the same monstrance as Inv. 29/2281 in Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.

Bibliography
P. M. Halm and R. Berliner, Das Hallesche Heiltum (Berlin, 1931), no. 231.
Die Sammlung Clemens, ed. by B. Klesse, H.-U. Haedeke and H. Griese, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1963, no. 438, p. 84.
H. Kohlhaussen, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters und der Dürerzeit 1240 bis 1540 (Berlin, 1968), no. 329 or 330.
J. Rasmussen, 'Untersuchungen zum Halleschen Heiltum des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg', in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 27 (1976), pp. 59-118 (p. 67, fig. 10).
A. B. Chadour and R. Joppien, Schmuck I. Hals-, Ohr-, Arm- und Gewandschmuck, Bestandkatalog des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln (Cologne, 1985), no. 78, p. 187.
H. Reber, Albrecht von Brandenburg. Kurfürst, Erzkanzler, Kardinal, 1490-1545, exhibition catalogue, Mainz, Landesmuseum Mainz, 1990, no. 64.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), pp. 95-96, 98, fig. 71.
Das Rätsel Grünewald, ed. by R. Riepertinger, E. Brockhoff, K. Heinemann, J. Schumann, exhibition catalogue, Aschaffenburg, Schloss Johannisburg, 30 November 2002-28 February 2003, p. 293, no. 177 (K. Heinemann).
Der Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg: Renaissancefürst und Mäzen, ed. by T. Schauerte, exhibition catalogue, Halle an der Saale, 9 September - 26 November 2006, I, p. 71-73, no. 10b, fig. on p. 73.


Image

Foto: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/Marion Mennicken.

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