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Medallion (Back)
Medallion (Back)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm (diameter)

Adoration of the Magi with Joseph; midwife (?).Crosshatched background.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Probably France, c. 1420-1430.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror (?). Decorated border with foliated decoration, flowers, fleur-de-lys, crosshatched background, and carved inscription: 'O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI'.

Object Condition
Hole which has caused the roundel to crack. Chipped along the edges.

Provenance
Van Gelder collection, Zeecrabbe castle, Uccle (near Brussels). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964): Kofler-Truniger sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1979, lot 29.

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.125, p. 34.


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