Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register (plaquette; fragment) (Back)

Panel, 1 register (plaquette; fragment) (Back)

Panel, 1 register (plaquette; fragment) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Legend of the Death of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
www.landesmuseum.lvr.de

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Bonn, LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn

Inv. R.16,3

Ivory

Height: 75mm
Width: 105mm
Depth: 6mm

Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles; swinging censer.

Museum's opinion 2012: Cologne (?), early 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Inscription: 'sch. XVI c'

Object Condition
Fragmentary.
Missing: upper and lower part; part of the left side.
Hole in the centre of the upper part, probably for suspension.

Provenance
Collection of Baron von Hüpsch.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Provinzialmuseum Bonn, 2 vols (Bonn, 1913), p. 39, no. XVIc.
Die Sammlungen des Baron von Hüpsch. Ein Kölner Kunstkabinett um 1800 (Cologne, 1964), no. 3.

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