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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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London, Victoria and Albert Museum

A.15-1949

Ivory

Height: 130 mm
Width: 60 mm (max.)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; belt.

Williamson and Davies 2014: Eastern French (Lorraine) or Cologne; about 1320.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: blue (on the Virgin's mantle under her wrist, green staining elsewhere).

Reverse
Smooth and slightly curved (concave).

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head, lower part of her cloak and feet, right forearm of Christ.
Christ's forehead is worn.

Provenance
Given by Dr W. L. Hildburgh, London, in 1949 (previously on loan from Dr Hildburgh; a note on the back of a photograph in the V&A departmental archive records that Hildburgh acquired the piece in London in 1926).

Bibliography
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 12.


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