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Statuette (Front)

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Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.169

Ivory

Height: 71mm
Width: 30mm
Depth: 22mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); Christ seated on the Virgin's right knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; bench.

Museum's opinion 2011: French or German, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: feet of the Virgin partly broken. Worn.

Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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