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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. 428

Ivory

Height: 91mm
Width: 61mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover (no. 461); acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 8, no. 22.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I : Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), pp. 118ff., no. 120.


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© Museum August Kestner, Germany. Photographer: Christian Tepper.

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