Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork medallion (médaillon ajouré) (Front)

Openwork medallion (médaillon ajouré) (Front)

Openwork medallion (médaillon ajouré) (Front)

Links

Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
www.museenkoeln.de

To purchase an image
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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 34 (lost)

Ivory

Height: 17mm (diameter)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria holding wheel and martyr's palm; crown.

Witte 1912: Lower Rhineland or Westphalia, early 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Westphalia, early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Westphalia (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910); probably lost during WWII.

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), pl. 84, p. 94, no. 6.

Image

Out of copyright. From F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912).

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