Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland

Inv. A.1950.132

Walrus ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 30mm
Depth: 25mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Child pulling the front of the Virgin's veil; bare-chested Christ; crown.

Museum's opinion 2015: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Purchased in 1950 from S. Burney, 1 Burlington Gardens, London W.1.

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