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Angel

Date:: ca. 1360–70
Geography:: Made in Paris, France
Culture:: French
Medium:: Ivory
Dimensions:: Overall (without base): 5 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 1 in. (14.6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm) Base (Wooden base): 7/8 x 1 9/16 x 2 3/16 in. (2.3 x 4 x 5.6 cm)
Classification:: Ivories
Credit Line:: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941
Accession Number:: 41.100.164

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 306

Description

This elegant statuette, along with a second angel, may have originally have held a reliquary.
Provenance

vicomte Wallerand de Baré de Comogne, Ghent (in 1913); [ Georges J. Demotte (1877 - 1923), Paris and New York (sold 1920)]; George and Florence BlumenthalParis and New York (by 1926-1941)
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Bone (6,328)

Ivory (5,389)

Statues (4,078)

Figurines (3,249)
Where
Europe (148,586)

France (52,276)

Paris (2,025)
When
A.D. 1000-1400 (7,084)
In the Museum
Medieval Art (6,712)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
France, 1000–1400 A.D.

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