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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 25

Bone

Height: 115mm
Width: 40mm
Depth: 10mm

Saint Mary Magdalene with ointment pot; closed book.

Witte 1912: Italy, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Italy (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 94, pl. 85, no. 6.

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