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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.museum-august-kestner.de

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Hannover, Museum August Kestner

Inv. Z 11

Ivory;wood (frame)

Height: 153mm
Width: 115mm

Christ before Herod; soldiers in armour; canopy.
Engraved inscription: 'HERODE'.

Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century (before 1887), in a 15th-century German style.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the wooden frame.
Blue and white label with the inscription: 'No. 453'.

Object Condition
The panel is made of three different pieces of ivory which are held together by the frame.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 108, no. Z. 11.

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