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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.240

Ivory;silver (modern crown).

Height: 221-222mm
Width: 63mm
Depth: 56mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; brooch; belt.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1290-1310.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding; gilt pattern on the Virgin's robe (modern).

Object Condition
Missing: head, upper torso and right arm of Christ (replaced), bottom of Christ's robe and left foot of Christ (replaced); two fingers on the Virgin's right hand; crown (replaced).
The object was in its present state when in the Carlo Micheli collection (before 1895).

Provenance
Carlo Micheli collection, Paris (before 1895). Collection of Dr de Saint Germain, Paris. Bought by Henry Walters from Henry Daguerre in Paris in 1922; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
Medieval Art, exhibition catalogue, Tulsa (Oklahoma), Philbrook Art Center, 1965, no. 100.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 269.


Image

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