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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)
Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)
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Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 675

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 60mm

Saint Anthony, holding a bell and a staff; seated Virgin and Child.
Inscriptions on the halos: 'S. ANTONIUS' and 'MATER DEI'.

Vöge 1900: Spain (?), 15th century.
Volbach 1923: Spain, 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Object Condition
Damaged along the right side.

Provenance
Acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1854.

Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 154.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 52, pl. 39.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 177, fig. 19].


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