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Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. MA 2043

Ivory

Height: 56 mm
Width: 44 mm
Weight: 10.6 g

Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin and Holy Women helping Christ; soldiers in armour; saint John the Evangelist; mount Golgotha; city gate.

Berliner 1926 and Museum's opinion 2014: Germany, 1st quarter of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat, with traces of glue. Blue and white label with inscription '623'.

Comments
This piece is part of the same group as another panel in Munich (Inv. MA 2042) and one in Innsbruck, at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (Inv. E/8). See related objects.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1896.

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1410, pl. XXIX.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 84.


Image

© Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich. Photography: Bastian Krack.

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