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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 636

Ivory

Height: 81mm
Width: 52mm

Adoration of the Magi; pointing Magus wearing a glove.
Border of dentils.

Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (architectural details).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.Cancelled red ink inscription: 499.

Provenance
Nagler collection, Berlin; acquired for the Kunstkammer in 1835.

Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 94.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 42, pl. 50.


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