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Here, there are coloured and gilded  glass medaillions around the edges of the draperies in imitation of costly enamels. The lower part of the Virgin's mantle was originally richly patterned with painted roundels. The canopy above emphasised the importance of the figure.","physicalDescription":"The Virgin holds the Christ-Child on her left arm and the remains of a flower-stem in her right hand. She wears a tall crown with foliate crestings over a veil and a multi-layered mantle drawn across her body over a gown. The Christ-Child  is semi-naked, his bottom half covered with a long flowing  cloth; He blesses  with His right hand and holds a book in His left hand. The Virgin was acquired with an associated canopy, composed of three trefoil crocket gables, with crawling animals at the corners (a pig, a dog, arabbit , and a lion) and with tall square crenellated towers above.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"limestone","id":"AAT11286"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"},{"text":"inlay","id":"AAT53850"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved limestone, with remains of paint and gilding and inlaid glass","categories":[{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2009CR1676","2009CR7656","2009CR7652","2009CR7650","2009CR7646","2009CR1663","2009CR1660","2009CR1658","2017JW3152","2017JW3177","2019LX7196","2019LX7185","2019MA7413"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"9 (VA)","id":"THES49705"},"free":"","case":"WE","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"9 (VA)","id":"THES49705"},"free":"","case":"WE","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statue","id":""}],[{"text":"Canopy from statue of virgin and child","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Normandy","id":"x29041"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1350-1370","earliest":"1345-01-01","latest":"1370-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"167.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Including base/support","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"59","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"30","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"168","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measured for the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries 2006.","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Formerly in the collection of Prince Soltykoff, Paris; Soltykoff sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 15th April 1861, lot 227 (bought by John Webb, 510 francs); bought from John Webb, London, in 1862 (£24)\n\nHistorical significance: This particular type of Virgin and Child derives from prototypes in the Ile-de-France. The idiosyncratic treatment of the Virgin's drapery and the mannered, rather cold, represantations of the faces of both the Virgin and Child suggest that it is a provincial product. The use of  inlaid glass encrustation around the borders of the Virgin's mantle points to an origin in  Normandy.","historicalContext":"Figures of the Virgin and Child were displayed on consoles which were attached to the piers of the nave or on the walls of the aisles.","briefDescription":"Statue, the Virgin and Child, carved limestone, French, Normandy, ca. 1350-1370","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1862 <u>In</u>: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I</u>. London: Printed by George E. 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