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Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée) (Back)

Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. MA 2042

Ivory

Height: 57 mm
Width: 43 mm
Weight: 13.8 g

Christ before Pilate; Pilate washing his hands; soldiers in armour; dog; ewer.

Berliner 1926 and Museum's opinion 2014: Germany, 1st quarter of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat, with traces of glue.
Blue and white label with inscription: '622'. Ink inscription: '3744' (?).

Object Condition
Missing: points of the spears held by soldiers in the doorway.

Comments
This piece is part of the same group as another panel in Munich (Inv. MA 2043) and one in Innsbruck, at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (Inv. E/8). See related objects.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1896.

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1409, pl. XXIX.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 83.


Image

© Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich. Photography: Bastian Krack.

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