Inv. WMJ 1
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi; Virgin under a canopy.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; sheep.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Frauberger 1897: French, 14th century.
Frankfurt 1966: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets or the lid of a weights and scale box.
Provenance
Wilhelm Metzler collection, Frankfurt am Main; acquired by the Museum in 1904.
Bibliography
F. Noack, Die Geburt Christi in der Bildenden Kunst (Darmstadt, 1894), p. 8.
H. Frauberger, Die Kunstsammlung des Herrn Wilhelm Peter Metzler in Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt, 1897), pl. 23.
Kunst und Kunsthandwerk des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, February-April 1966, no. 231.
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