Inv. 710
Seated king with orb and sceptre; dog (?); throne carried by four servants.
Foliated decoration.
Vöge 1900 and Volbach 1923: Germany, 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: green, blue, red and gold.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Comments
Raised border under the base.
Provenance
Friedländer collection; acquired before 1875 for the Kunstkammer (the Berlin Kunstkammer was dissolved in 1875).
Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 186.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 58 (with ill.).
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