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Triptych, 1 register (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. Z 8

Ivory;metal (clasp)

Height: 158mm
Width: 108mm (closed)

Wing, left
Saint Augustine of Hippo with a bishop's mitre and crozier; child holding a spoon, alluding to the vision of saint Augustine by the seashore.
Centre panel
Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; angel holding a chalice; soldiers coming to arrest Christ (Arrest of Christ); Judas holding a purse; soldier holding a torch; soldiers in armour.
Wing, right
Saint Mary Magdalene (?) with ointment pot.
Row of blind arches; tracery.

Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century, in a 16th-century German style.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Germany (Nuremberg?) or French (Paris?), probably c. 1840-50.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two later hinges

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Blue and white label on the back of the right wing with the inscription: 'N. 484'. White label on the back of the left wing with the inscription: '422'.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, 2. Abt. Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 108, no. Z 8.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 66.

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