Gothic Ivories Project | Quadriptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Back)

Quadriptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Back)

Quadriptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
www.museum-august-kestner.de

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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. Z 6

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 92mm
Width: 240mm

Wing 1
Baptism of Christ by saint John the Baptist; angel holding Christ's tunic.
Wing 2
Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child; Christ touching with his right hand the Virgin's chin; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; crown.
Wing 3
Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers with scrolls; rugged cross; book.
Wing 4
Unidentified tonsured male saint holding a book and crozier (possibly saint Stephen); saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell; unidentified bishop saint with mitre and crozier; blessing gesture.
Incised trefoils; crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2013: 1st half of the 19th-century, in a 14th-century style.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three sets of two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Black pen inscription on wing 3: 'KM. 1.'. Pencil inscription on wing 4: 'Gn 6'.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; 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. 107, no. Z 6.
Fälschung und Forschung, exhibition catalogue, Essen, Museum Folkwang and Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesit, October 1976-March 1977, no. 62.
M. Brandt, 'Schatzkunst aus Hildesheim. Die Sammlung des Advokaten Franz Engelke (1778-1856)', in Zeitschrift Kunstwissenschaft 42/2 (1988), pp. 11-38, fig. 33.

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