Braunschweig (Brunswick), Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen, Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum
Carrying of the Cross.
Museum's opinion 2011: French (?), 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Pencil inscription: '622'.
Object Condition
Missing: upper register(s); upper part of the cross.
Worn.
Provenance
Museum founded in 1754 to house the collections of the Dukes of Braunschweig (this piece is mentioned in Inventory H 32 (finished ca. 1798), p. 260, no. 622: 'Dito [Ein kleines Basrelief]: die Gefangennehmung Christi, in allem 6 Figuren. der Rahm is wie bey No. 620 [In einem schwarzen Rahmen mit Leisten von Taxisholze]'); looted by Napoleon, restituted in 1814.
Bibliography
H. Riegel, Die Sammlung mittelalterlicher und verwandter Gegenstände (Braunschweig, 1879), no. 83.
C. Scherer, Die Braunschweiger Elfenbeinsammlung (Leipzig, 1931), no. 12.
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