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Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 661

Ivory

Height: 93mm
Width: 51mm

Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Border of dentils.

Westwood 1876: Germany, late 15th century.
Vöge 1900: Germany, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: Germany, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Longer edges slightly chamfered.Ink inscription: 'HE' or 'HL' or 'HEL'. Other illegible ink inscriptions. Cancelled inscription in red: 524.

Object Condition
Green staining. Two vertical cracks along the right side.
Chips along the top edge and right edge (at the back).

Provenance
Radowitz collection; acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1856.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 508 (`73.194).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 129.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 51, pl. 55.


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