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Statuette or relief (fragment; appliqué) (Front)

Statuette or relief (fragment; appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Riom, Musée Mandet

C.R. 79-4-3

Ivory

Height: 70mm
Width: 32mm
Depth: 12mm

Virgin (certainly fragment of a Virgin and Child).

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin, left part of her but and right arm; lower part of her body; Christ, which she certainly had in her arms.

Comments
This Virgin certainly held Christ in her arms.

Provenance
Collection of Édouard Richard (b. 1909, d. 1986) and his wife Marie-Joseph Richard (b. 1915, d. 1997); their gift to the Museum in 1983.


Image

© Musée Mandet, Riom.

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