Ivory Male Figure (relief)

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Culture: Baroque Material: Ivory Accession No: MG 024. Current Location: The Hunt Museum. Ivory carving of a man seated on a bench. The rectangular seat has a low straight back. Fabric is draped in folds over the front of the bench and hangs straight down the back. The man is seated with one leg out to the side and an arm (now missing) stretched to the same side. The man has well defined leg muscles. His feet are shod in openwork sandals tied in wrappings reaching up around his shins. He is dressed in a classical style, knee length toga draped over his left shoulder. A narrow belt is secured around his waist. He appears to not be wearing a tunic. He is bearded and his hair reaches to the nape of his neck and is curled around the fringe and ends. The carving is in the classical style and dates to the seventeenth or eighteenth century. More.

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HuntMuseum
The Hunt Museum preserves and exhibits the original artefacts gathered, over a lifetime, by John and Gertrude Hunt and known as the Hunt Collection. The Museum also displays its own collections, as well as visiting exhibitions of Local, National and International significance with the overall aim of maximising their cultural and educational potential for the people of Limerick and Ireland.

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