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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 42

Bone or ivory

Height: 40mm
Width: 25mm
Depth: 5mm

Saint Martin and the beggar; sword.

Witte 1912: Rhineland, 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: tip of the sword.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Aachen (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), pl. 84, p. 94, no. 2.

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