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Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

KK 164

Ivory;silver (later frame, dated 1576)

Height: 57mm
Width: 40mm

Annunciation; Virgin holding an open book; curtain.

Vienna 1964: Germany, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Germany, 2nd half of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
The back of the later silver frame is engraved: Crucifixion with Adam's skull at the foot of the cross and initials 'G M', with the year '1576'.

Provenance
Collection of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol (b. 1529, d. 1595) at Ambras Castle, near Innsbruck; features in the 1596 Ambraser Nachlassinventar Erzherzog Ferdinands II., fol. 444 (Ed. 'Inventar des Nachlasses von Erzherzog Ferdinand II. in Innsbruck (Ruhelust, Alte Burg) und Ambras vom 30. Mai 1596', in Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses in Wien, vol. VII, 2, Reg. 5556, p. CCCIII): 'Ain alt helfenbainer Englischer grues in silber eingefasst'; inherited by his son Karl von Burgau; sold in 1605 to Emperor Rudolph II (d. 1612); the collection was brought to Vienna in 1806; together with other imperial collections, it formed the basis of the collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts of the Kunsthistorisches Museum which opened in 1891.

Bibliography
Katalog der Sammlung für Plastik und Kunstgewerbe (Vienna, 1964), I. Mittelalter, no. 16.


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