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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

30.95.213

Ivory

Height: 186mm
Width: 113mm
Depth: 47mm (without base)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ in long robe; crown; belt.

Museum's opinion 2011: European, late 19th century or early 20th century (in the style of the 14th century).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (hair, crown, patterns on the Virgin's robe, along the hems), red (Christ's robe), blue (lining of the Virgin's robe).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Bequest of Theodore M. Davis (b. 1837, d. 1915), 1915.


Image

Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

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