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Prague, Museum of Decorative Arts

Inv. 68725

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Weight: 121g (including the base)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee; Virgin holding a bird in her left hand; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; bench.

Uresová 1986: France, 14th century.
Stehlíková 2006: Paris (?), c. 1300.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ's head and head of the bird.

Provenance
Collection of Jan Bartos (d. 1946). Acquired by the museum in 1961.

Bibliography
L. Uresová, 'Řezba v kosti a perleti', in Středověké umělecké řemeslo ze sbírek Uměleckoprůmyslového muzea v Praze (Prague, 1986), p. 17, no. 112.
P. Černý, Du bon du coeur, Poklady francouzského středovĕkého umĕni v českých a moravských sbírkách, exhibition catalogue, Olomouc, Muzeum umĕni in Olomouc, Galerie, 1 June-30 July 2006, pp. 158, no. 34 (D. Stehlíková).


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