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

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

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Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Inv. A 26

Ivory

Height: 113mm
Width: 65mm
Depth: 16mm

Seated Virgin and Child; angel crowning the Virgin; Christ in long robe; Christ sitting in the Virgin's lap; Christ holding a scroll with carved inscription G.O.S.O.N.L.U.X.M.O.N.D.
Unidentified coat of arms with a crowned eagle with outspread wings and a tower; unidentified coat of arms (crowned eagle with outspread wings and a tower parted with arms with a bend); foliated decoration; blind arches and tracery in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2012: 1st half of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Side columns are broken, lower corners chipped.

Provenance
Acquired before 1853 by the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar (mentioned in the inventory book: Verzeichnis der im Kunst-Cabinet auf Grossherzogl. Bibliothek befindlichen Gegenstände (1853), fol. 9, no. 31); the Kunstkabinett later merged with the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar to form the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.


Image

© Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Museen, Inv. A 26.

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