Medieval Art & Manuscripts
Plaque: Adoration of the Magi
MetalworkReligious ArtIvory & Enamel
Details
- Author / creator
- Monvaerni Master (French)
- Object type
- Decorative arts
- Date or period
- c. 1480–1500
- Dimensions summary
- Unframed: 9.9 × 7 cm
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Hartley Bequest Fund, 1942
- Text
- Unidentified text
- Script
- Gothic textualis
- Language
- Latin
About this object
The size and shape of this plaque suggests that it may have originally been an "image de chevet" -- a religious image that was popularly hung from the bed curtain during late medieval times.
Materials and technique
Painted enamel on copper
