Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket; coffret)

Panel (fragment of a casket; coffret)

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 8570 (almost completely destroyed)

Ivory

Height: 87mm
Width: 100mm

Letters 'I' and 'N'; love knot; flowers.

Koechlin Number: 1316

Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.
Dokumentation 2006: France, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: three fragments have survived.

Provenance
Figdor collection, Vienna; acquired by the Museum in 1935; undocumented after 7 April 1945; three fragments returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 526; II, no. 1316.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 244.

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