Inv. Pl.O. 397
Saint George and the dragon; saint George on horseback; princess praying; dog with a bone; snake; rocks with castle, chapel and trees; dog; running hare.
Stafski 1965: German, c. 1400.
Nuremberg 2000: Western Germany, c. 1400-1410.
Metken 2001: Western Germany, c. 1400-1410.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Concave.
Object Condition
Missing: upper edge with parts of the castle; head of the dragon; left foreleg of the horse; spear; parts of the harness; hands of the princess; right forearm of saint George (replaced).
Damaged in the background.
Several holes on the edges.
Comments
Possibly originally attached to a small altarpiece (drill holes) (Stafski 1965).
Provenance
Collection of Freiherr Hans von Aufseß; acquired in 1856 by the Museum.
Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 87.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 644.
W. F. Volbach, Der heilige Georg: Bildliche Darstellung in Süddeutschland mit Berücksichtigung der norddeutschen Typen bis zur Renaissance (Strasbourg, 1917), pp. 57-59.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 351, n. 2.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum (London 1929), II, pp. 56-57.
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), p. 241, no. 218.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 294.
Spiegel der Seligkeit: Privates Bild und Frömmigkeit im Spätmittelalter, ed. by G. U. Großmann, exhibition catalogue, Nuremberg, 2000, no. 73, p. 247 (F. Kammel).
S. Hahn, S. Metken, P. B. Steiner, Sanct Georg. Der Ritter mit dem Drachen, exhibition catalogue, Freising, Diözesanmuseum Freising, 2001, p. 184.
Im Zeichen des Christkinds. Privates Bild und Frömmigkeit im Spätmittelalter, ed. by F. M. Kammel, exhibition catalogue, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2003, p. 118, no. 73.
Mythos Burg, ed. by G. U. Großmann, exhibition catalogue, Nuremberg, Dresden, 2010, pp. 106-107, no. 3.29.
S. Kretschmar, Burgen in der Kunst (Kulturgeschichtliche Spaziergänge im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, vol 13), (Nuremberg, 2012), p. 86.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 33.
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