Cross Fragment of the Mourning Virgin

1210-1220 (Medieval)

16.5 cm 26.4 cm 3.5 cm

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This finely worked plaque of the Virgin was originally placed on the left arm of a very large cross. The outer border has decorative characters resembling Arabic known as pseudo-Kufic script. A nearly identical psuedo-kufic border is found on a enamel plaque in London (Victo...

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Collection Chappée, Le Mans (?); Brimo De Laroussilhe, Paris, by purchase; Henri Daguerre, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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