Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1510; 16th or 17th century base
Medium
boxwood on late 16th or 17th century gold base with enamel
Credit Line
Schatzkammer der Residenz, Munich, Germany
Object Number
ResMüSch. 28
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall height, diameter: 12.9 × 5.7 cm (5 1/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Description
Pinnacle: Virgin and child in centre, with four reliefs making up the Holy Kinship on the inside; upper bead opens into a triptych; corpus: Nativity, Moses and the Burning Bush, Gideon and the Fleece, Flowering of Aaron's Rod; left wing: Annunciation; right wing: Presentation in the Temple; lower bead: Adoration of the Magi; exterior: Tree of Jesse
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
ET EGREDIETVR VIRGA DE RADICE JESSE, ET FLOS DE RADICE EIVS ASCENDET (around lower half of the central sphere, exterior) [Isaiah 11:1]
IACOB ANTE GENVIT JOSEPH VIRVM MARIAE DE QVA NATVS EST IESVS QVI VOCATVR CHRISTVS (around upper half of the central sphere, exterior)
ANNA MARIA JOACHYM (around scene under top section, interior)
EX AN[n]A VAS PORTANS NOBILE MANNA PRODIIT (underside top section, interior)
REGES THARSIS ET INSVLAE MVNERA OFFERENT, REGES ARABVM ET SABA DONA ADDVCENT (around lower half, interior) [Psalms 71:10]
VIDIMUS STELLAM EIUS IN ORIENTE ET VENIMUS CUM MUNERIBUS ADORARE DOMINUM (on closed wings, upper half, exterior)
ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI, FIAT MIHI SECVNDVM VERBVM TVVM (around left wing, interior) [Luke 1:38]
CONSVMATI SVNT DIES [octo] VT CIRCVM CIDERETVR PVER (around right wing, interior)
ET TV, BETHLEHEM TERRA JVDA, NEQVAQVAM MINIMA ES IN PRINCIPIBVS JVDA. EX TE ENIM EXIET DVX, QVI REGAT POPVLVM MEV[m] ISRAHEL (around upper half, interior) [Matthew 2:6]
[Source: Rijksmuseum catalogue]
ET EGREDIETVR VIRGA DE RADICE JESSE, ET FLOS DE RADICE EIVS ASCENDET (around lower half of the central sphere, exterior) [Isaiah 11:1]
IACOB ANTE GENVIT JOSEPH VIRVM MARIAE DE QVA NATVS EST IESVS QVI VOCATVR CHRISTVS (around upper half of the central sphere, exterior)
ANNA MARIA JOACHYM (around scene under top section, interior)
EX AN[n]A VAS PORTANS NOBILE MANNA PRODIIT (underside top section, interior)
REGES THARSIS ET INSVLAE MVNERA OFFERENT, REGES ARABVM ET SABA DONA ADDVCENT (around lower half, interior) [Psalms 71:10]
VIDIMUS STELLAM EIUS IN ORIENTE ET VENIMUS CUM MUNERIBUS ADORARE DOMINUM (on closed wings, upper half, exterior)
ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI, FIAT MIHI SECVNDVM VERBVM TVVM (around left wing, interior) [Luke 1:38]
CONSVMATI SVNT DIES [octo] VT CIRCVM CIDERETVR PVER (around right wing, interior)
ET TV, BETHLEHEM TERRA JVDA, NEQVAQVAM MINIMA ES IN PRINCIPIBVS JVDA. EX TE ENIM EXIET DVX, QVI REGAT POPVLVM MEV[m] ISRAHEL (around upper half, interior) [Matthew 2:6]
[Source: Rijksmuseum catalogue]
Published References
Evelin Wetter, Zwei spätmittelalterliche Betnüsse aus den südlichen Niederlanden (Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2011)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 2
Provenance
Provenance
Described in Kunstkammer inventory of 1598 as in Buchsbaum holz ausgeschnitten Monstranz...
Previous Owner(s)
Unsorted