Inv. 678 (partly destroyed)
Knight on horseback holding a sword; soldiers holding crossbows.
Westwood 1876: Germany, 14th century.
Vöge 1900: Southern Germany (?), 14th century.
Volbach 1923: Southern Germany, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: Germany (?), 13th or 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: Southern Germany, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Damaged by fire.
Missing: head of the horse; head of one of the foot soldiers.
Provenance
Acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1849; undocumented after 7 April 1945; returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.
Bibliography
C. Becker, J. H. von Hefner-Alteneck, Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (Frankfurt, 1863), II, pl. 5.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 820 ('73.307).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 122.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 51, pl. 35.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 4568-469, no. 1253B; III, pl. CCXI.
R. Wurche, 'Die Elfenbeinbildwerke in der Skulpturen-Sammlung', in Forschungen und Berichte, Staatliche Museen Berlin V (1962), pp. 73-78, figs. 3a-c).
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 242.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 247.
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