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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh

MMB.0442

Ivory

Height: 165mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.

Museum's opinion 2012: France (?), 14th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (modern): inside of the Virgin's veil, Virgin's cloak.

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Jesus.

Provenance
Purchased before 1901 by Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (b. 1858, d. 1901), Antwerp; upon his death, his mother Henriëtte had a purpose-built museum erected (1901-1904) to house his collection.

Bibliography
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 60, fig. 32, in relation to no. 6.


Image

Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp © Bart Huysmans and Michel Wuyts.

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