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Subject
Religious.

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

70.397

Ivory

Height: 111mm
Width: 51mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ half-kneeling in the Virgin's lap.

Randall 1993: French (Lorraine?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: dress (blue).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ; right forearm, hand and left foot of the Virgin. Cracked.

Provenance
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill to the Institute in 1970.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 13.

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