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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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

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Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum

Inv. C 7086

Ivory

Height: 127mm
Width: 86mm
Depth: 11mm
Weight: 154g

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Karlsruhe 1999: West Germany (Cologne) or France, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Very few traces of the original partial gilding and polychromy: gold (hair; cross; architectural details), blue (lining of the Virgin's cloak), red (mouths; wounds; inside of Christ's loincloth; cloak of saint John; architectural details).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Vertical crack in the lower part of the panel.

Provenance
Acquired by the museum in 1895 from the estate of Dekan Letzgus, Möhringen.

Bibliography
A. von Schneider, Die Plastischen Bildwerke (vorwiegend oberrheinischer Herkunft) (Karlsruhe, 1938), no. 84.
Mittelalterliche Kunst in Baden, exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1949, no. 122.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), no. 7.


Image

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