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Knop (fragment of a crozier?) or pommel

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Religious.

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Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. WMJ 5

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 59mm (max. diametre)

Adoration of the Magi.
Foliated decoration.

Koechlin Number: 1241

Koechlin 1924: France, early 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: German (?), beginning of the 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Hole down the centre.

Provenance
Wilhelm Metzler collection, Frankfurt am Main; acquired by the Museum in 1904.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 449, 457; II, no. 1241.

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