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Statuette (Front)

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Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.166

Ivory

Height: 52mm
Width: 27mm
Depth: 21mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ playing with veil of his mother; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; bench with decorated with arches.

Museum's opinion 2011: France, c. 1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair), red (arches on the back of the bench).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Worn.

Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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