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Medallion (médaillon) (Front)

Medallion (médaillon) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 682

Ivory;rock crystal;silver (later fittings)

Height: 51mm
Width: 44mm

Death of the Virgin (Dormition); apostles.

Vöge 1900: Northern Italy (Lombard), early 15th century.
Volbach 1923: France, c. 1420.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: Paris, c. 1400-1410.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive original polychromy and gilding: blue, red, black, gold, orange, etc.

Reverse
Post-medieval engraved inscription on the silver casing: 'PAVSATIO DEIPARAE/OSSI INSCULPTA INCIPIENTE/SECVLO XVI OLIM INSERTA/FIBVLAE PLVUIALIS AD/VSVM FF PRAEDICATORVM/S. MARIAE GRATIARVM/MEDIOLANI'.

Provenance
Trotti-Trivulzi collection, Milan: acquired in 1886 in Milan by the Museum.

Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 152.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 49, pl. 39.
E. Panofsky, 'A Parisian Goldsmith's Model of the Early Fifteenth Century?', in Beiträge für Georg Swarzenski zum 11. Januar 1951, ed. by O. Goetz (Berlin, 1951), pp. 70-84 (p. 72).
Van Karel de Soute tot Keizer Karel, ed. by M. Bafcop, exhibition catalogue, Mecheln, Cultureel Centrum Burgemeester A. Spinoy, 1973, no. 456.
J. Rasmussen, 'Untersuchungen zum Halleschen Heiltum des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg', in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 28 (1977), pp. 91-132 (p. 129).
Di Fabio, C. 'La "Pace" di San Lorenzo di Portovenere, il Maresciallo di Boucicaut e Pedro de Luna. Un promemoria per la storia della cultura figurativo del Genova nell'autunno del Medioevo', Bollettino d'Arte, supplemento no. 95, 1996, pp. 141.
C. di Fabio, 'La Pace di San Lorenzo di Portovenere, il Maresciallo di Boucicaut e Pedro de Luna. Un Promemoria per la Storia della Cultura Figurativa a Genova nell' autunno del medioevo', in Studi di Oreficeria, Bolletino d'Arte, Supplemento al no. 95, ed. by A. R. Calderoni Masetti (Rome, 1997), pp. 137-148 (pp. 139-140).
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 57.


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