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Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Nancy, Musée Lorrain

39.0.133

Ivory

Height: 88mm
Width: 33mm
Depth: 2mm

Saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm.

Museum's opinion 2012 [after written correspondence from Danièle Gaborit-Chopin, 2006]: 19th century, in a 15th-century style.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat. Regular scoring along the right edge. Ink inscription: '3104 p'.

Object Condition
Three holes: one in the center above the saint's head; the other two in the upper and lower left corners.

Provenance
Collection of René Wiener (b. 1855, d. 1939), Nancy (Inventaire de la maison de la Ravinelle [drawn by René Wiener in 1938], p. 78, no. 1236); his bequest in 1939.


Image

© Musée Lorrain, Nancy. Photography: M. Bourguet.

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