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Relief (possibly fragment of a tabernacle; appliqué) (Front)

Relief (possibly fragment of a tabernacle; appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University, Harvard Art Museum

1959.137

Ivory

Height: 147mm
Width: 73mm
Depth: 39mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on right arm.

Randall 1993: French (probably Paris), 1320-1340.
Museum online catalogue 2009: French?, 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Uncarved. Label with handwritten inscription: 'MATHIAS KOMOR WORKS OF ART NEW YORK' (also on the bottom), and also: 'N386'.

Object Condition
Missing: head and left hand of the Virgin; head and hands of Christ; lower part of the statuette.
Two holes drilled in the Virgin's chest.

Provenance
Mathias Komor Works of Art, New York. Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., gift to Harvard Art Museum in 1959.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 8 (ill. on p. 37).


Image

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Credit line: Harvard Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. in memory of his father, Stuart Cary Welch, A.B. '17, M.Arch. '22, 1959.137.

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