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Openwork panel, 1 register (plaquette ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel, 1 register (plaquette ajourée) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Wood (frame);ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 55mm

Seated Virgin and Child; crown; saints in niches; seated saint Paul holding a sword; seated saint Peter holding a key; seated saint Mary Magdalene or saint Clare holding a pyxis; seated saint John the Evangelist with martyr's palm.
Tracery. Rows of blind arches.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: England, end of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of von Bonstetten, Noville. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

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.115, p. 32.


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