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Pendant depicting The Coronation of the Virgin
Pendant depicting The Coronation of the Virgin

Pendant depicting The Coronation of the Virgin

about 1410–20
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueElephant ivory a jour relief, painted, set under rock crystal in a silver-gilt and nielloed frame
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 5.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number54.932
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsRitual objects
Collections
ProvenanceMartin Heckscher (d. 1897), Vienna; May 4-6, 1898, posthumous Heckscher sale, Christie's, London, lot 242, to the Staatliche Museen (later the Schlossmuseum), Berlin (inventory no. 1898.220) [see note 1]; 1930s, sold by the Schlossmuseum to Johannes Hinrichsen (dealer), Zurich [see note 2]; 1954, sold by Hinrichsen to the MFA for $1056. (Accession Date: September 9, 1954)

NOTES:
[1] W. F. Volbach, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke, vol. 1, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin and Leipzig, 1923), p. 41, no. 98,220. Many thanks to Sven Haase, Deputy Director, Zentralarchiv, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, for confirming this information (October 13, 2016).

[2] According to MFA curator Hanns Swarzenski at the time of the pendant's purchase, "the object belonged to the Staatliche Museum of Berlin and...was sold to Mr. Hinrichsen shortly before World War II."