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Relief (appliqué) (Back)

Relief (appliqué) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Limerick, The Hunt Museum

HCM 087

Ivory

Height: 96mm
Width: 145mm
Depth: 14 mm

Nativity; swaddled child; ox; ass.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Uneven, with scoring. Curved.
Modern ink inscription, '725'.

Object Condition
Pierced with a large hole on the left side.

Comments
Very similar to a piece in Amiens and another one in Darmstadt.

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.

Bibliography
P. Doran, 'The Hunt Museum', in North Munster Antiquarian Journal (Studia in Memoriam John Hunt) 20 (1978), pp. 3-15.


Image

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