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Relief or statuette (reused as a knife handle) (Front)

Relief or statuette (reused as a knife handle) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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S'-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh Castle

Inv. 394

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 34mm
Depth: 20mm

Saint John the Evangelist (?).

Van Luttervelt 1948: West Germany, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Utrecht 1987: Germany (?), mid 14th century.
s'-Heerenberg 2008: Central Europe (Moravia?), 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Worn.

Provenance
Purchased for the museum by Jan Herman van Heek from Dr. Koch, Münster, before 1948.

Bibliography
R. van Luttervelt, Inventarislijst van de varzameling schilderijen, beeldouwwerken, handschriften en andere kunstvoorwerpen, op Huis Bergh, s'-Herenberg, opgemaakt door Dr. R. van Luttevelt, October - November 1948, (typescript, copy held in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum library), p. 118.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 15.
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. p. 48).


Image

© Collection Dr. J.H. van Heek, Huis Bergh Castle, s'-Heerenberg.

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