Adoration of the Magi

Details

  • Title

    Adoration of the Magi

  • Associated place

    Germany (place of creation)
  • Date

    c. 1450 - 1460
  • Material and technique

    carved pearwood; probably constructed from two panels, the join running from apex of right-hand roof section down through middle of melchoir; the two parts joined with adhesive, relief hollowed out on back around figures of virgin march and melchoir,

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    36.5 x 49.3 cm (height x width)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by Sir John and Lady Beazley, 1962.

  • Museum location

  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1962.53

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Further reading

Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), p. 655 no. 207

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