Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register (plaquettes) (Wing, left, front)

Diptych, 1 register (plaquettes) (Wing, left, front)

Diptych, 1 register (plaquettes) (Wing, left, front)

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Wing, left, back

Wing, right, front

Wing, right, back

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Subject
Secular. Mythology. Old Testament.

Repository Institution
www.museum-august-kestner.de

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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. R 1906.59a-b

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 72mm (each)

Wing, left
Judgement of Paris (Mercury present); the three goddesses Venus, Juno and Minerva stand before Paris asleep; Mercury brings Paris the golden apple.
Wing, right
Bathsheba receives a letter from David; David, from a window of his palace, sees Bathsheba bathing.
Crosshatched background. Foliated border.

Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century, in a late 15th-early 16th-century German style.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Round white label with the inscription: 'R 59b'.

Provenance
Collection of Karl Thewalt, Cologne: his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 4-14 November 1903, lot 600, pl. 10. Collection of George Wilhelm Rehbock, a Hannover merchant; purchased from him by the museum in 1906.

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