Base for a Statuette

Title: Base for a Statuette
Rights: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain.
Creator: Unknown, South Netherlandish.
Date: 1470-1480
Description: A miniature boxwood base, likely created to support a statuette of the Virgin Mary. It is decorated with carvings of Eve and the snake (depicted as Lilith) in the Garden of Eden, separated by the apple tree. Eve is depicted eating an apple and there are flower carvings above and below the two figures.
Format: Miniature sculpture. Boxwood. 3 1/2 x 4 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contributor: Shaelyn Fett
Identifier: 55.116.2.
Subject: Base for a Statuette; Boxwood; Lilith; Eve; Snake; Garden of Eden; Virgin Mary.
Source: Jpeg file. Unknown Photographer. The Cloisters Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection. Accessed 10/12/2023. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471728.

Item sets: Lilith: The Demonization of Female Power and Sexuality-Shaelyn F.