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Panel (fragment) (Front)

Panel (fragment) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum

M.16-1917

Ivory

Height: 101mm
Width: 38mm
Depth: 7mm

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

Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy. Brown stains.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label with provenance information: 'Presented by C. Fairfax Murray Esq. May 1917'.

Object Condition
Missing: rest of the panel which would probably have included an architectural framework and angel holding a candlestick on either side, following the typical 'Vierge glorieuse' iconography.
Later hole in the upper part and lower part from border.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Fairfax-Murray (b. 1849, d. 1919): his bequest to the Museum in 1917.


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