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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

1978.521.2

Ivory

Height: 229mm
Width: 68mm
Depth: 53mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit or orb; crown.

Museum's opinion 2011: European, 19th century (in a 14th-century style).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.
Inscription on the base: 'DM'.

Object Condition
Piece of ivory on the Virgin's chest, presumably to hole caused by the end of the nerve canal.
Missing: part of the crown.

Provenance
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Levy Hermanos; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Levy Hermanos, 1978.

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