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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet

Inv. D2043

Ivory

Height: 119mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); Christ half-kneeling in the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; bench.

Liebgott 1985 and Museum's opinion 2013: France, end of the 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (Virgin's cloak).

Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the throne flat with scoring.

Object Condition
Chipped around the base.
Trace of a missing crown on the Virgin's head, probably in metal. Nails in the head of Christ possibly for a metal crown.

Provenance
Gift of G. Larsen in 1885.

Bibliography
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), p. 53, fig. 48.

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