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Front

Side

Links

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

68.60

Ivory

Height: 178mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 32mm

Standing saint Mary Jacobi (also known as Mary Cleophas).
Carved inscription: '[MA]RIA IA[CO]BI EMIT'.

Randall 1993: French, early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Pulp cavity visible.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand.
Worn on the front.

Provenance
Collection of John Hunt, Dublin. Bought in 1968 thanks to the Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 30.

Image

© Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Photography: Travis Fullerton.
Image credit line: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund.

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