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Religious.

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Flushing, New York, The Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY)

64.17

Ivory

Height: 203mm
Width: 50mm
Depth: 47mm

Crucified Christ.

Museum's opinion 2012: German (Rheno-Mosan), 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: arms (would have been made of separate pieces of ivory; a hole and a peg remain that would have secured them into place); right leg is missing just below the knee.
Left foot is broken. Hole in center of the back.

Provenance
Collection of Mr. Jack Linsky, New York: given by him in 1964.

Bibliography
Director's Choice, Part I, exhibition catalogue, New York, Queens College, 2002.

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