File:Figure of Virgin and Child.jpg

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Figure of Virgin and Child   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Figure of Virgin and Child
Description
A figure of Virgin and child in pipe-clay. The Virgin is dressed in long robes and wearing a long veil and crown, the child rests on her left hip. The Mother and Child hold hands and the Infant holds her left wrist. This piece is made from a mould and may have been used as a staff mount. Probably Netherlands.
Depicted people Virgin Mary and Child
Date 16th or 17th century AD
Medium Mineral - Clay - Pipe-clay
Dimensions H 12.5 x W 4.5 x D 3
institution QS:P195,Q2659085
Current location
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Accession number
MG 031
Object history File of material relating to a statue of Virgin and Child. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); note (date unspecified) by Raghnall O'Floinn, National Museum of Ireland, which attributes this object to the Netherlands and dates it to the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries; Hunt Museum object comment sheet (25 April 1996) containing comments made about object by John Cherry, British Museum. States that object is probably Dutch and fifteenth-century. Questions if it is a staff mount or pilgrims badge. Information card also contains annotations noting information given by O'Floinn and Cherry.
Credit line Hunt Museum
Source https://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/staff-mount/
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(Reusing this file)		 Public Domain via Hunt Museum

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