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Statuette (Front)

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Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.202

Ivory

Height: 278mm
Width: 118mm
Depth: 102mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; crown; bench.

Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: eyes.

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin.
Crown partly broken.

Provenance
Coming from the Convent of Minori Servanti, Assisi. 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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