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Medallion (Front)

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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1870.939.

Ivory

Height: 41.3mm
Width: 27.1mm
Depth: 9.5mm
Weight: 9.98g

Saint Christopher; hermit holding a lantern on the river bank.

15th century or 16th century: Upper Rhine (?), c. 1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Uncarved.

Comments
This relief was once part of a medallion and would probably have been protected by a piece of rock crystal with metal fittings.

Provenance
Public art collection (pre 1870; mentioned in 1859 catalogue) which became part of the Historisches Museum when it opened in 1892.

Bibliography
Verzeichniss der Mittelalterlichen Sammlung in der S. Nicolaus-Capelle und dem Conciliumssaale des Basler Münsters (Basel, 1859), p. 30, no. 65.

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