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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 124mm (statuette only); 11mm (base)
Width: 40mm (statuette only); 42mm (base)
Depth: 29mm (statuette only); 25mm (base)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: red (outline of Christ's robe; decorative patterns on the base; lips; necklaces), gold (hair; decorative patterns on the base).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head.

Provenance
Theodore M. Davis collection: bequest of Theodore M. Davis in 1915 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 30.95.17); de-accessioned.

Image

Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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