Carved figure representing the Virgin Mary

On display

Details

  • Title

    Carved figure representing the Virgin Mary

  • Associated place

    Netherlands (place of creation)
  • Date

    1451 - 1500
  • Material and technique

    carved painted wood

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    41 cm (height)
    base 22.6 cm (width)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by Elias Ashmole in 1677, from the Tradescant collection.

  • Museum location

    Lower ground floor | Gallery 2 | The Ashmolean Story
  • Museum department

    Antiquities

  • Accession no.

    AN1836.p146.494

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Further reading

MacGregor, Arthur, ed., Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum 1683 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), 226, pl. CXII

Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), 213, p.669

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