Cameo of the Virgin

ca. 900 (Medieval)

3 cm 5.7 cm 0.6 cm

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This small and delicately carved bloodstone cameo shows the Virgin standing and turning to her left, her arms raised in a gesture of prayer or supplication. An abbreviated inscription on either side identifies her as the "Mother of God." She is perhaps imploring her son to for...

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33762
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object
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provenance
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Leon Gruel, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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2
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Byzantine

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