Inv. MA 2024
Register 1: saint Paul holding a sword; seated Virgin and Child; saint Peter holding a key.
Register 2: saint Helena holding a cross; saint Ursula holding an arrow; saint Clare, as a nun holding a pyxis.
Berliner 1926: Italian, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Egbert 1929: Italian (in Venetian style), early 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: Italy, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Attribution
Style of the Innes Diptych (Egbert 1929)
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Handwritten inscription: 'Nr. 1421'.
Labels with handwritten inscriptions: '39[...]' (over an earlier label with a number ending in '1'), '70'.
Label with printed inscription: '2024'.
Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part of the panel (probably for hanging).
Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1896.
Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1391, pl. XXVIII.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 76.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 181, fig. 24].
J. Thinesse, Appendix zum Elfenbeinkatalog Rudolf Berliners, unpublished MA dissertation, Munich, 1977 (Typescript), p. 43.
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