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Subject
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.225

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 35mm
Depth: 26mm

Trinity; God the Father with papal tiara; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy); crucifix; brooch.

Museum's opinion 2012: Spain (?), 15th-16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with some scoring. Pierced with a hole in the centre.

Object Condition
Details of the Crucifixion and features of Christ are particularly worn.

Provenance
Collection of Amedeo Canessa, Paris (until 1910). 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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