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Seal (Back)

Seal (Back)
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Front

Bottom

Subject
Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.1162

Ivory;silver (original crown)

Height: 43mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a fruit in her left hand; crown.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: silver band around the base.
Crown slightly damaged. Worn.

Comments
Intaglio at the bottom with the letter 'H'.The base was bound with a silver band and the seal would have been hanging from the girdle of a lady or an abbess.

Provenance
John Hunt collection, Dublin: bought by the Walters Art Museum from Mrs John Hunt in March 1981.

Bibliography
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 55.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 270.


Image

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