Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (CAST, front)

Statuette (CAST, front)

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CAST, back

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: c. 222mm
Width: c. 70mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding an open book; Christ reading.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: object or stem of flowers once held in the Virgin's right hand.

Comments
So far, this piece is only known through a cast made in the mid 19th century. The photograph on this page is of the cast now in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art (no. 347).

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Conway Library IVORY CASTS © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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