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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 21531

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 58mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; crown.

Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Eastern French (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding along the hems of the Virgin's cloak.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Maugin bequest in 1930.

Bibliography
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 10.

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