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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.109

Ivory

Height: 200mm
Width: 93mm
Depth: 40mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ taking his first step; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; twisting movement of Christ; crown; Christ in long robe.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: Upper Rhine (Basel?), 1360-1370.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left hand (formerly replaced, holding a cross, according to old Walters files); crown partly broken.
Bird partly repaired.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters in Vienna in 1926; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 279.

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