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Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Side 2)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Side 2)
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Side 1

Both sides

Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 631

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 55mm

Side 1
Saint George and the dragon; princess praying. Rosettes in the spandrels.
Side 2
Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Westwood 1876: Germany, 14th century.
Vöge 1900: France, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd half of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (architectural details; spandrels).

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Left and right edge chipped on side 2.

Provenance
Acquired for the Kunstkammer before 1837.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 420-421 (`73.151-152), Appendix, p. 439.
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 84.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 42, pl. 52.


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