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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-928

Ivory;metal (modern crown)

Height: 257mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a book in her right hand; Christ holding a bird in his left hand; Christ holding a book in his right hand; bare-chested Christ; Christ wrapped in the Virgin's cloak.

Koechlin Number: 0698

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd quarter of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Czartoryski collection (listed in the catalogue of the collection in 1865 in the Hôtel Lambert in Paris; handwritten catalogue 1281, 22 June 1893).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 246; II, no. 698; III, pl. CXII.

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