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Statuette (Side)

Statuette (Side)
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Subject
Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.230

Ivory

Height: 200mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ Child holding a fruit in his left hand; crowned Virgin; belt; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe.


Koechlin Number: 0642

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli (b. 1806, d. 1876), minister of Pope Pius IX, and pontifical treasurer-general from 1845; his family, 1876, by inheritance. Bought in Rome in 1904 by George Robinson Harding, London; Henry Walters, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 239, 257; II, no. 642; III, pl. CVII.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), p. 30, in relation to no. S.101.


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