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Medallion (médaillon) (Back)

Medallion (médaillon) (Back)
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Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art

Inv. 1167.1

Ivory

Height: 65mm (diameter)
Depth: 10mm

Adoration of the Magi (with Virgin and Child to the left); Joseph opening a casket.

Randall 1993: German (Middle Rhenish), 3rd quarter of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Incised with a symbol, which is possibly the mark of an ivory atelier (Randall 1993).

Object Condition
Lower part broken and glued back into place. Pierced with a hole for suspension.

Comments
Four pinholes in the border indicate that this piece was originally inset into an object, seven cuts in the outer edge are for a subsequent mounting (Randall 1993). Still according to Randall, the composition is based on a lost print by the Master E. S. (d. 1467) (see H. Huth, 'Ein verlorener Stich des Meisters E. S.', in Festchrift Adolph Goldschmidt, zu seinen Siebzigsten Geburtstag [Berlin, 1935], pp. 74-79).

Provenance
Bought from Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, in 1951.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 171.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 161.


Image

© Honolulu Museum of Art 2013.
Credit Line: Honolulu Museum of Art Purchase, 1951 (1167.1).

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