The Hunt Museum

Madonna and Child

Exhibiting one of Ireland's greatest private collections of Art and Antiquities, dating from the Neolithic to the 20th Century

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Current Exhibition
Current Exhibition
AIB Collection on Show
Exhibition of AIB’s Corporate art Collection which now forms part of the National Collection. On loan from the Crawford Gallery, Cork.

Collection Items

Wooden game-piece
Wooden game-piece
A wooden game-piece which is one of a set of seven. It is round in shape with carving on the upper face. The carving is worn but human figures are visible.
Game-piece
Game-piece
An ivory game-piece, probably a draughtsman, showing two animals, perhaps bears, among foliage with a huntsman. The scene is framed by a border of beads interrupted by four straps. Anglo-Saxon.
Game-piece
Game-piece
An ivory game-piece, probably a draughtsman, showing a seated man and woman with a game board on their knees playing a game. Behind them stand a couple holding hands with another couple nearby.
Game-piece
Game-piece
A game-piece in ivory showing two men holding a large animal upside down by the hind legs. There is a border of geometric interlacing. Anglo-Saxon.
Die (dice singular)
Die (dice singular)
Die (dice singular), wooden.