Inv. MA 2014
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels swinging censers and holding navettes; angel crowning the Virgin.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils.
Berliner 1926: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Munich 2010: Northern France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Ink inscription: 'Nr. 1407'.
Blue and white labels with inscription: '375'. Label with inscription '397'. Pencil inscription 'XXIV'.
Provenance
Nerianer-Institut, Aufhausen; acquired for the royal collections, Munich in 1821; transferred from the Königliche Vereinigte Sammlungen to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich in 1866.
Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1381, pl. XXVIII.
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. 51.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten: ausgewählte Werke aus den Beständen des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, ed. by R. Eikelmann, M. Weniger and C. Melzer, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 2010, no. 17.
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