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Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Inv. KK 10155

Ivory

Height: 155 mm
Width: 54 mm
Depth: 68 mm

Male figure kneeling in donor position; cushion.

Schmidt 1981: French, c. 1330.
The Hague 2007: Paris, c. 1330.
Vienna 2008: Paris, c. 1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (mouth), black? (eyes).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Purchased in 1993 by the Friends of the Kunsthistorisches Museum from a private collection.

Bibliography
G. Schmidt, ‘Zu einigen Stifterdarstellungen des 14. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich’, in Études d’art médiéval offertes à Louis Grodecki (Paris, 1981), pp. 269-280 (esp. p. 277).
S. Haag, Meisterwerke der Elfenbeinkunst (Kurzführer durch das Kunsthistorische Museum, Vol. 8, ed. by W. Seipel), (Vienna, 2007), p. 46, no. 5.
Additionen. Neuerwerbungen des Kunsthistorischen Museums 1990-2008, ed. by W. Seipel, exhibition catalogue, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2008, pp. 63-64, no. 3.2.


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