Church Plate depicting the Mother of God - Chudov Monastery

Unknown Russian, Russian

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late 16th or early 17th century

Silver and gilt

Overall: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, Class of 1889

159.2.19470.1

Geography

Place Made: Russia, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in Greek, on left side of figure: Mother; on right: God; below: Jesus; Christ

Course History

HIST 7.19, Medieval Paris, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2022

Provenance

Collected by Ralph Sylvester Bartlett (1866-1960); given to present collection, 1959.

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