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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.czartoryski.org

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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-1574

Ivory

Height: 165mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand (?).

Koechlin Number: 0071

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, beginning of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychrome and gilding (modern).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Czartoryski collection (listed in the catalogue of the collection in 1865 in the Hôtel Lambert in Paris; handwritten catalogue 12309, p. 204).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 100; II, no. 71.

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