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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Religious.

Repository Institution
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Rome, Vatican, Musei Vaticani

Inv. 64625 (Morey A91)

Ivory (?)

Height: 83mm
Width: 51mm
Depth: 9mm (max)
Weight: 23.4g

Coronation of the Virgin.

Morey 1936: Northern Italy, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with crosshatching in the lower part. Traces of glue.

Object Condition
Missing: left shoulder of Christ and part of his left arm.

Provenance
May be mentioned in the inventory of Clement XIII, pope from 1758 to 1769, described as a Coronation 'ex ebore' (Inv. Clemente XIII, f. 110v).

Bibliography
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), pp. 80-81, no. A91, pl. XXII.

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