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Statuette; enclosed in a rosary pendant. (Front)
Statuette; enclosed in a rosary pendant. (Front)
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Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum

Inv. C 6564

Ivory;marble and metal (pendant and beads)

Height: 30mm (ivory); 69mm (with glass and metal housing)
Width: 8mm (ivory); 16mm (diameter of glass and metal housing)
Depth: 7mm (ivory)
Weight: 1.5g (ivory only)

Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding Christ with both hands.

Karlsruhe 1999: Germany, Nuremberg (?), c. 1500.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Original partial gilding and polychromy: gold (hair); black (eyes); red (mouths).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Some green stains.

Provenance
Collection of Georg Gimbel, Baden-Baden; acquired from him by the museum in 1893.

Bibliography
Verzeichnis der Kunst-Sammlung G. Gimbel in Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, 1889), no. 360.
Ora pro nobis. Bildzeugnisse spätmittelalterlicher Heiligenverehrung, exhibition catalogue, ed. by H. Siebenmorgen, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe 1992, no. 5.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), no. 12.


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