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Subject
Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.170

Ivory

Height: 230mm
Width: 70mm
Depth: 37mm (without base)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a book in his left hand; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; crown.

New York 1970: France, middle of the 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (North), c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Cracks.

Provenance
Collection of J. and S. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt and London: sold 1910. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
The Middle Ages. Treasures from the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, no. 75.

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