BR63.5479: Implement Holder with Carved Scenes from the Passion
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR63.5479
- Title
- Implement Holder with Carved Scenes from the Passion
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- implement
- Date
- 1626
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/218032
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Boxwood with gilt silver
- Dimensions
- 19.6 x 2.8 cm (7 11/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: 1626, below bands of figures, carved: WGW / 1626
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
- Accession Year
- 1963
- Object Number
- BR63.5479
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A thin gilt silver band wraps around the upper section. The holder is carved in vertical sections with scenes from the Passion. (cs, 12/08/05)
Publication History
- Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), no. 56 pp. 103-104, repr. as pl. XLV
Exhibition History
- German Sculpture, 1500 - 1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/05/1984 - 12/31/1984
- German Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 01/21/1986 - 03/10/1986
- Objects for a Kunstkammer: Early European Collecting, 1550-1700, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 12/10/2005 - 11/19/2006
Verification Level
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