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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Glasgow, the Burrell Collection

Inv. 21.23

Ivory

Height: 361mm
Width: 35mm
Depth: 12mm
Weight: 108.5g

Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ seated frontally; crown.
Foliated capital.

Glasgow Museums' opinion 2013: Italian (?), 15th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Bought by Sir William Burrell on 27 April 1934 from John Hunt; given to the City of Glasgow by Sir William and Constance, Lady Burrell, in 1944.

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