Virgin and Child; St. John the Evangelist

Object Name

Artist/Maker

Object Type

Date

1490-1510

Medium

boxwood

Credit Line

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Object Number

1891.431 c-f

Location

Not currently on display

Institution/Owner

Overall Open (diameter): 32mm (3.2 cm)

Upper scene: seated Virgin and Child; Lower scene: St. John the Evangelist holding a chalice and a host (?)

Inscription

Latin inscription over both halves of case:

O mater Dei, memento mei

[source: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg]

Kurt Dingelstedt, “Betnuss” Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte I Edited by Otto Schmitt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1948) 373, ill. 2

Romanelli 46

Alfred Beit, London, England

Previous Owner(s)

Alfred Beit

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