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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 2112

Ivory

Height: 148mm
Width: 65mm

Three standing apostles.

Vöge 1900: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: beginning of the 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with crosshatchings.

Comments
Probably part of the same group as Inv. 2111 and Inv. 126, also in Berlin. See related works.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 108; given by A. Beit to the Museum in 1893.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 73 (E. Molinier).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 119.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 113-114, fig. 3).
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, pp. 14-15, fig. 4.


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