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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Top)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Top)
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Bamberg, Historisches Museum

Pl 3/2

Ivory

Height: 97mm
Width: 47mm
Depth: 7mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2011: c. 1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the right side. The other one is not visible because part of the border has broken away and been repaired.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Handwritten inscriptions: '329 S', '781'. Engraved monogram: 'AD'.

Object Condition
Missing: upper right corner and part of the right border (repaired). Hole in the upper edge of the panel. Double hole in the outer edge of the panel, probably to secure a clasp.

Provenance
In the Stiftung Geistlicher Rat Schellenberger from 1832; given to the Museum by the Krankenhaus-Stiftung in 1838.


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