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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Limerick, The Hunt Museum

MG 020

Ivory

Height: 67 mm
Width: 14 mm
Depth: 12 mm

Standing Virgin with hands in prayer (probably part of a Crucifixion scene).

Museum's opinion 2014: English (?), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Hole and traces of glue on the underside.
The eyes are pierced with small holes.

Provenance
Collection of John Hunt (b. 1900, d. 1976) and Gertrude Hunt (b. 1903, d. 1975), Limerick; now part of the Hunt Museum which opened in 1997.

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