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Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 673

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 60mm

Saint George and the dragon.
Pinnacles.

Westwood 1876: Germany, 15th century(?).
Vöge 1900: Germany (?), 14th century.
Volbach 1923: Italy, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with crosshatching. Trace of label. Cancelled red ink inscription: 536.

Object Condition
Hole in each corner.

Provenance
Radowitz collection; acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1856.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 494 (`73.188).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 126.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 53, pl. 57.


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