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| Keywords: English - Virgin and Child - Walters 71247.jpg The Virgin crowned by two angels is here portrayed as the Queen of Heaven royal mother of God and mediator between heaven and earth The Child stands on her lap taking his first step and holding a bird The leaf once formed half of a devotional diptych its use in prayer witnessed by the candle burn on the face of the angel at the right between 1350 1375 Medieval ivory cm 14 1 6 4 0 8 accession number 71 247 39044 Octave Homberg Paris by purchase Sale Hôtel Drouot Paris May 16 1908 no 472 Jacques Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 Ivory The Sumptuous Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983-1984 Images of Devotion Personal Piety in Medieval Manuscripts and Ivories The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval ivory in the Walters Art Museum Gothic art in England Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Madonna and Child with birds Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
