{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O158158"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O158158/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2024PA8414/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2024PA8414/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2024PA8414","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024PA8625","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024PA8626","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024PA8627","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024PA8628","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024PA8634","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024PA8633","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2017KC3236","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KV1879","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KV1877","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O158158/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O158158","accessionNumber":"4440-1857","objectType":"Statuette","titles":[{"title":"The Virgin and Child","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"This statuette of the Virgin and Child is by an unknown artist from Germany dating from ca.  1550-1600.\r\nThe interior contains a cavity for keeping relics.\r\nThe Virgin is placed on a pedestal which contains scenes depicting the Temptation of Eve.\r\n\r\nThis seems to be a retrospective piece, made in the sixteenth century, but imitating the style of the early fifteenth century. The base is a copy of an early fifteenth century one now in the Cloisters collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It was probably intended for a Kunstkammer (cabinet of curiosity). Cabinets of Curiosities often included such works, recalling an earlier style.","physicalDescription":"The Virgin and the infant Jesus. On the pedestal, carved in high relief, the temptation of Eve; in the interior is a cavity for containing relics.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"boxwood","id":"AAT12002"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"relief","id":"AAT53622"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved wood","categories":[{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2024PA8414","2024PA8625","2024PA8626","2024PA8627","2024PA8628","2024PA8634","2024PA8633","2017KC3236","2018KV1879","2018KV1877"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES395103"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statuette Virgin and Child","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Germany","id":"x28873"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1550-1600","earliest":"1550-01-01","latest":"1600-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"38.10","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"On the pedestal, carved in high relief, the temptation of Eve","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"This seems to be a retrospective piece, made in the sixteenth century, but imitating the style of the early fifteenth century. The base is a copy of an early fifteenth century one now in the Cloisters collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It was probably intended for a Kunstkammer (cabinet of curiosity). Cabinets of Curiosities often included such works, recalling an earlier style.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Statuette, the Virgin and Child, probably South German, about 1550-1600","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1857. <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. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 35."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hoffeld, Jeffrey M. \"Adams Two Wives\". <u>In</u>: <u>Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin</u>, XXVI (10), June 1968, pp. 430-40, fig 5."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Williamson, Paul and Evelyn, P. <u>Northern Gothic Sculpture 1200-1450</u>. London, 1988, p. 18, figs. 6-7."}],"production":"South Germany","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Virgin and Child","id":"N4691"},{"text":"Eve","id":"N561"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[{"text":"Temptation of Adam and Eve","id":"V145"}],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"Christianity","id":"AAT73711"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["4440-1857"],"accessionNumberNum":"4440","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1857,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-04","recordCreationDate":"2008-06-27","availableToBook":true}}