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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 10905

Ivory

Height: 205mm; 38mm (base)
Width: 65mm
Depth: 50mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; blessing gesture; Christ holding an apple in his left hand; crown.

Koechlin Number: 0657

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding (hair; fruit).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Constantin bequest, 1881.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 240; II, no. 657; III, pl. CVIII.

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