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Statuette; enclosed in a pendant (fragment of a monstrance) (Back)

Statuette; enclosed in a pendant (fragment of a monstrance) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. 29/2281

Silver;glass;ivory

Height: 95 mm (total)
Width: 40mm
Weight: 15.1g

Saint George and the dragon.

Karlsruhe 1999: German, early 16th century.
Aschaffenburg 2002: Nuremberg (?), c. 1496.
Regensburg 2006: Nuremberg?, c. 1500.
Museum opinion 2013: Southern Germany, late 15th century or c. 1500.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding (later): hair, belt.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Saint George's right arm and the dragon's tongue have broken off and been glued back into place.
Missing: hand and sword of saint George (possibly later additions) and dragon's right ear (later addition).

Comments
This pendant comes from the same monstrance as Inv. G 907 in Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst. See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Albrecht von Brandenburg (b. 1490, d. 1545), Archbishop of Mainz. Gräb collection, Munich. Collection of Emil Weinberger: his sale, Vienna, 1929, lot 96; acquired by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum at the Weinberger sale.

Bibliography
P. M. Halm and R. Berliner, Das Hallesche Heiltum (Berlin, 1931), no. 231, pl. 112.
H. Kohlhaussen, Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters und der Dürerzeit 1240 bis 1540 (Berlin, 1968), no. 329 or 330.
J. Rasmussen, 'Untersuchungen zum Halleschen Heiltum des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg', in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 27 (1976), pp. 59-118 (fig. 9).
H. Reber, Albrecht von Brandenburg. Kurfürst, Erzkanzler, Kardinal, 1490-1545, exhibition catalogue, Mainz, Landesmuseum Mainz, 1990, no. 64.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), p. 95, fig. 70.
Das Rätsel Grünewald, ed. by R. Riepertinger, E. Brockhoff, K. Heinemann, J. Schumann, exhibition catalogue, Aschaffenburg, Schloss Johannisburg, 30 November 2002-28 February 2003, p. 293, no. 177 (K. Heinemann).
Der Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg: Renaissancefürst und Mäzen, ed. by T. Schauerte, exhibition catalogue, Halle an der Saale, 9 September - 26 November 2006, I, pp. 71-73, no. 10A.


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