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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.222

Ivory

Height: 125mm
Width: 47mm
Depth: 32mm

Seated Christ; open book.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, c. 1230.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Bust of Christ carved in the round. Back of the bench flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of Christ.
Large hole in the centre. The head of Christ has broken away but has been glued back into place.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), 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.

Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 17, pl. XV.


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Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

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