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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych; upper register), with quatrefoil (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych; upper register), with quatrefoil (quatre-feuilles) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Augsburg, Maximilianmuseum

Inv. 1783

Ivory

Height: 60mm
Width: 66mm
Depth: 6mm

Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.

Museum's opinion 2010: 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel (later, for hanging).
Brown stains on the back.

Comments
This piece once was the upper register of the left wing of a diptych. Another part of this diptych featuring the Nativity is now in the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (Inv. Pl.O. 375).

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), p. 363, no. 629.


Image

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