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NOTES TO THE PLATES

South Cerman (Tyrol?) ;datcd I6ti.

An akar-frontaJ ofunusual workmanship coroiscing ofthree timlii but not idcntical pands, cacłi with i bonkr oo jo left-hand side. Bordcn of a diflotnt panem arc tdtchod on abow | Wow. The wholc is hand- coolcd in Iow relief - a proco* wfuch lud by thn datc long H| rpbced in the main centra of produebon by embossing wich piata or moulds under prawe- The worked pand bas bcen painted in ted, pink, gron and white on a pale błoć ground. The central pand with the Virgin and Child hu a plain, untooicd gik ground ind I peribed 16: oo wuhder barliche mubter cotis bit fir uns: Ii (Thou Woodroui Mothcr of Cod, prajr foruj. i6li). Actually daaed lcathcr pands aic octrerndy tarć.

Dimeraions: 178x 096 m. (70x 38 in.)

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Probably German; scwnteemh to dghtccnth century.

Painted in bright colours on a stamped ground which ii glazed red. Thcse pands ait unlikc any other known to the aothor. Howcvcr, their generał com ponowi is reminisccnt of the German panel illustratcd in PLue 24 and bodi arc in a German collcction. Thn all points to a German provenance. Such frontals wert presumably madę for Catholic churchcs in tarana and Austria.

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Tl* component pands of tha alur -frontal ait joined, not by sbrhing, bot by rade jomo •hicfa aic shaved and pasted so aa 10 make the joints invisible. Only the bands of the «pwwk omamem arc stamped; the rest ii plam. Eight different ponda hm bcen md. The sflvered ground is coated with a red glaze round the edge and a golden glaze in the central area. The Bowert are painted bluc, mauvtandred.

The coat of arms appear to be those of the Chigi fundy of Siena and Romę and are dis-played 00 a shidd of Italian Earoque form whde the generał design closdy follows chat eemmonły fcwd 00 Itakan emhioideied altar4rontals ofic lar Baroque pcnotŁ Dunenuom: 1*62 x 1*02 m. (62 x 40 in.)

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Engłah: third quancr ofthc sevaueenth century.

Oik and paarboaid pand cowotd wuh ulvmd kadm, uoirtd wuh largr hcadrd bor nafli Pauncd wił od colom, esopt for the rad paaages whick we tornad wiA a md |&ur dMoughwhachtheiiKtrcanbescen.

The Royal Anm a» bomc by the Scuara kavei link doubt as to the prownimr and appfou mm daścofthis pand. It was perhaps madę to hang in a church orin some cnie budding.

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