Inv. 71.1162
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a fruit in her left hand; crown.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: silver band around the base.
Crown slightly damaged. Worn.
Comments
Intaglio at the bottom with the letter 'H'.The base was bound with a silver band and the seal would have been hanging from the girdle of a lady or an abbess.
Provenance
John Hunt collection, Dublin: bought by the Walters Art Museum from Mrs John Hunt in March 1981.
Bibliography
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 55.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 270.
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