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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.212

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 71mm
Depth: 49mm

Head of Christ or head of a prophet.

Museum's opinion 2012: Europe, late 19th - early 20th century in a 14th century style.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Ivory darkened.

Provenance
Collection of Émile Molinier, Paris. 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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