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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side)
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Bamberg, Historisches Museum

PL 3/3

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 58mm
Depth: 5mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls. 
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Museum's opinion 2011: French, c. 1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Hinges no longer visible as the inner edge has broken away and been repaired.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Handwritten inscriptions: '36' (in red), '327 S'.

Object Condition
Missing: left edge of the panel, where the hinges once were (repaired with a strip of ivory).
Hole in the right edge, certainly to secure a clasp.

Provenance
In the Stiftung Geistlicher Rat Schellenberger from 1832; given to the Museum by the Krankenhaus-Stiftung in 1838.


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