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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 165mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand.

Sprinz 1925: Germany (Swabia), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy: clothes; eyes, etc.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left arm of Christ; part of the stem of flowers held by the Virgin.

Provenance
Collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen (no. 5190)(in 1925).

Bibliography
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), no. 18, fig. 11.

Image

Out of copyright. From H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925).

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