Kneeling Angel

1220-1230 (Medieval)

7.4 cm 7.9 cm 1.1 cm

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Originally this colorful angel was attached to a reliquary shrine or an altar frontal, of which very few have survived intact. He kneels in a pose of submission and reverence, suggesting he was one of a pair of angels flanking the Virgin or Christ, or the archangel Gabriel fro...

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Clément-Simon, Château de Bach, Corrèze, before 1890, by purchase; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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