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Religious.

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Antwerp, MAS|Collection Vleeshuis

AV.1952.008.034

Ivory

Height: 180mm
Width: 57mm
Depth: 18mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; blessing gesture; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round, but lower relief on the back. Concentric circles of various sizes added on the back.

Object Condition
Crown partly broken.

Provenance
Collection of Prosper Michaux: his bequest in 1952.

Bibliography
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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