Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding (later): hair, belt.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Saint George's right arm and the dragon's tongue have broken off and been glued back into place.
Missing: hand and sword of saint George (possibly later additions) and dragon's right ear (later addition).

Comments
This pendant comes from the same monstrance as Inv. G 907 in Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst. See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Albrecht von Brandenburg (b. 1490, d. 1545), Archbishop of Mainz. Gräb collection, Munich. Collection of Emil Weinberger: his sale, Vienna, 1929, lot 96; acquired by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum at the Weinberger sale.

Bibliography
P. M. Halm and R. Berliner, Das Hallesche Heiltum (Berlin, 1931), no. 231, pl. 112.
H. Kohlhaussen, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters und der Dürerzeit 1240 bis 1540 (Berlin, 1968), no. 329 or 330.
J. Rasmussen, 'Untersuchungen zum Halleschen Heiltum des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg', in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 27 (1976), pp. 59-118 (fig. 9).
H. Reber, Albrecht von Brandenburg. Kurfürst, Erzkanzler, Kardinal, 1490-1545, exhibition catalogue, Mainz, Landesmuseum Mainz, 1990, no. 64.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), p. 95, fig. 70.
Das Rätsel Grünewald, ed. by R. Riepertinger, E. Brockhoff, K. Heinemann, J. Schumann, exhibition catalogue, Aschaffenburg, Schloss Johannisburg, 30 November 2002-28 February 2003, p. 293, no. 177 (K. Heinemann).
Der Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg: Renaissancefürst und Mäzen, ed. by T. Schauerte, exhibition catalogue, Halle an der Saale, 9 September - 26 November 2006, I, pp. 71-73, no. 10A.