Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number
17.190.457a
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall (H x W x D x Diameter): 36mm × 33mm × 10mm × 33mm (3.6 × 3.3 × 1 × 3.3 cm)
Description
Seated Virgin and Child with kneeling nun holding a rosary
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Latin inscription carved around Virgin and Child:
o mater dei memento mei
[source: Met site]
o mater dei memento mei
[source: Met site]
Published References
Ellis, Lisa and Suda, Sasha (Eds). (2016). Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, exhibition catalogue, 5 November 2016 - 22 January 2017. Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Ontario. [p. 79]
Émile Molinier. Collection Charles Mannheim: Objets d'Art. Paris, 1898. no. 26, pp. 13-14; G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 45, pp. 68-69, pl. XXVII.; Karl Dingelstedt, Schmitt, Otto, ed. "Betnuß." Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte 2 (1948). p. 373.
Émile Molinier. Collection Charles Mannheim: Objets d'Art. Paris, 1898. no. 26, pp. 13-14; G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 45, pp. 68-69, pl. XXVII.; Karl Dingelstedt, Schmitt, Otto, ed. "Betnuß." Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte 2 (1948). p. 373.
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 35
Provenance
Provenance
M. Charles Mannheim, Paris; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (until 1917)
Previous Owner(s)
M. Charles Mannheim
J. Pierpont Morgan