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Religious.

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Cologne, Kolumba, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln

Inv. B1

Ivory

Height: 78mm

Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child.

Schulten 1978: Lower Rhineland, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of Christ.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Nikolovius, Bonn; his gift in 1857.

Bibliography
Das Erzbischöfliches Diözesan-Museum Köln (Cologne, 1936), no. 284, ill. on p. 57.
W. Schulten, Kostbarkeiten in Köln: erzbischöfliches diözesan-Museum Katalog (Cologne, 1978), no. 283.

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