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Religious.

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 110

Ivory

Height: 123mm
Width: 65mm
Depth: 46mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin and Christ holding a bird; bench.

Koechlin Number: 0681

Koechlin 1924: French or German, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Rhineland, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ; right forearm of the Virgin and left hand of Christ (replaced).
Crack down the face of the Virgin. Chipped around the base.

Provenance
In the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in 1924.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 244, 252; II, no. 681.

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