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Together with the Crucifixion, statues and statuettes of the Virgin and Child were the pricipal objects of devotion in the Christian Church, and vast numbers were made for ecclesisastical, monastic and private worship.\n\nThe original function of this relief is not clear. It may have occupied the central position of a small triptych, but the carving of the clouds on the underface would suggest that these were meant to be seen from below. The reliefs iconography is also unusual. Images of the Virgin and Child with music-playing angels appear regularly in Netherlandish late medieval art, but they are invariably shown in a terrestrial setting rather than floating, as here, in the clouds.","physicalDescription":"The Virgin is seated (no throne visible) wearing an ample mantle over her low-necked robe which leaves her left breast bare, which she offers to the naked Christ Child; on her head is a crown of flowers. She supports the Child who stands on her left knee and rests agains ther left hip: at her feet, borne on clouds, are two half-length angels, one playing a lute, the other holding an open book with the words 'o dulciz maria' below a line of musical notation. 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