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

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

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Brno (Brünn), Moravian Gallery

Inv. 4922

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 50mm
Depth: 50mm

Nativity (Virgo lactans); Virgin lying with her head to the right.
Rosettes in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0447

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive later gilding and polychromy: gold and red.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label with handwritten inscription: 'J.8'.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper border of the panel.

Provenance
Purchased by Theodor von Offermann from the painter Friedrich Wachsmann, Prague; donated by Theodor von Offermann to the museum in 1885.

Bibliography
Exhibition, Brno, 1884, pl. LXXII (mirror image).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 211; II, no. 447.


Image

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