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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum

Inv. 10-4769

Ivory

Height: 270mm

Standing angel holding a candlestick (modern repair).


Koechlin Number: 0720

Migeon 1904: Spain, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: Spanish (?), mid 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1330.
Antwerp 1982: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Van Os 1996: France, c. 1330.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red.

Reverse
Curved.

Object Condition
Missing: lower part of cloak (modern repair, when in the possession of Kofler-Truniger). The candlestick is also modern (between 1908 and 1979); see older photographs). Damaged surface.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: sale, Paris, 11 May 1908, lot 470 (purchased by Lariade). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne: Kofler-Truniger sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1979, lot 24; collection of Willem Neutelings, Brasschaat (no. 85)(bought in 1979); on permanent loan from him since 1994.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Collection de M. Octave Homberg', in Les Arts 36 (December 1904), pp. 32-48 (p. 35).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 260; II, no. 720.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.34.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 7 June-2 August 1964, no. 697.
H. Schnitzler, P. Bloch, C. Ratton and F. Volbach, Mittelalterliche Elfenbein- und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, 1965.
B. Blondeel and P. Gevaert, Gotische groepen uit Antwerps privé-bezit, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, Bank Brussel Lambert, 1981, no. 1.
H. van Os, Een engel in de koffer: Willem Neutelings en zijn verzameling (Baarn, 1996), p. 18, figs. 14-15.


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