Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, with quatrefoil (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; musician shepherd holding a shawm.

Koechlin 1924: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
No traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Inscription on the left border: '. F . A . V . D . M'; Inscriptions on the lower border: '716' and current inventory number.

Object Condition
Missing: upper register.

Comments
This piece originally was the lower register of the left wing of a diptych; the upper register of the right wing of this diptych has also survived and is now in the Maximilianmuseum in Augsburg (Inv. 1783).

Provenance
Acquired before 1856 by the Museum.

Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 45.
S. von Pückler-Limpurg, Nurnberger Bildnerkunst um die Wende des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts (Strasbourg, 1904), p. 20.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 629.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 319.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), no. 225.

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