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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Wing, right, front)
Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Wing, right, front)
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Wing, left, front

Wing, left, back

Wing, right, back

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.museum-august-kestner.de

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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. 435 a-b

Ivory

Height: 160mm
Width: 93mm (each)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi; brooch.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Medallions containing quatrefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Both wings must have fallen and broke into several pieces which have been glued back together, but many fragments, especially in the background and the architecture, are missing from the left wing. Numerous chips.
Traces of damage by fire (?) on the back.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 8, fig. 20.


Image

© Museum August Kestner, Germany. Photographer: Christian Tepper.

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