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Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire

12312

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 42mm
Depth: 30mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes sapientiae); Christ seated frontally; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe.

Museum's opinion 2011: Mosan, Rhenish or English, 13th century, with later defacement.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Very damaged.
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin and head of Christ. The Virgin's head has been defaced and recarved at a later date so that her head looks more like that of a skeleton, and is reminiscent of the skulls on Memento mori rosary beads.

Provenance
Bequest of Alice Baird, Geneva, 1926 (via Mr Baird and Mrs van Muyden-Baird, her heirs).

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