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45.33.3

Ivory;silver (later crown)

Height: 195mm
Width: 71mm

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

Randall 1993: Mosan, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
The silver crown dates from the Baroque period (Randall 1993).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin, hand and part of the index on her left hand; left hand and two fingers on the right hand of Christ.
Centre of the base has been gnawed by a rodent (Randall 1993).

Provenance
Gift of Mrs Herbert Fleishhacker in 1945.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 16.


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