Inv. MA 2041
Adoration of Christ Child (Nativity). Annunciation to the shepherds; musician shepherd holding a wind instrument; angels holding a scroll with inscription 'GLORIA IN ALTISSIMIS'.
Roped border.
Berliner 1926 and Museum's opinion 2014: Germany, early 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat, with some scoring.
Pencil inscriptions: '29' (x2). Label with handwritten inscription: '621'. Ink inscription: 'ad 621'.
Object Condition
Notches along the sides.
Provenance
Collection of Andreas Ulrich Mayr (b. 1732, d. 1802), councillor and chaplain at the court of the Regensburg prince-bishops (Regensburger Fürstbischöflichen Rat und Hofkaplan): his sale, Regensburg, 1803, lot 183 (Verzeichniss einer auserlesenen Sammlung von Elfenbein-Arbeiten welche weil. S.T. Herr Andreas Udalrich Mayr hinterlassen hat, Regensburg, 1803, lot 183); acquired for the royal collections; 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. 1408, 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. 82.
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