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Head of crozier (crosse); crozier of bishop Konrad Martin (Front)

Head of crozier (crosse); crozier of bishop Konrad Martin (Front)
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Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Diözesanmuseum

Inv. DS 43

Gilt silver;ivory

Height: 1830 mm (in full)
Width: 105 mm (volute, ivory only)

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse; Virgo in sole); Virgin as the Apocalyptic woman; crescent moon; standing angel holding a censer; standing angel holding a candlestick.Kneeling angel below the volute; angel holding a scroll.
Foliated decoration.

Made by Heinrich Joseph Viethen (b. c. 1824), Aachen, in 1856.


Attribution
Heinrich Joseph Viethen (b. c. 1824)

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
The Virgin and Child figure is made of cast gilt silver.

Provenance
Made in 1856 for bishop Konrad Martin (1856-1879).

Bibliography
A. Fuchs, Der Paderborner Domschatz (Paderborn, 1914), p. 16, no. 23.
A. Fuchs, Der Paderborner Dom Festschrift (Paderborn, 1936), p. 345.
W. Liese, Konrad Martin. Professor und Bischof 1812-1879 (Paderborn, 1937).


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© Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum Paderborn, Foto: Ansgar Hoffmann.

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