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Statuette (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.299

Ivory

Height: 182mm
Width: 59mm
Depth: 44mm

Standing Virgin (originally part of a Crucifixion group).

Museum's opinion 2011: French, late 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.
Label with no. '380'.

Object Condition
The head has been completely separated at some point but has been glued back into place.
Missing: lower part of the piece including the Virgin's feet.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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