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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100 mm
Width: 30 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; Christ holding an orb; staff.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of Christ (?); lower part of the staff; left part of the saint's robe.
Repair to the front of the saint's legs (?).

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 25 April 1994, lot 65. Marc-Arthur Kohn, Paris, 16 November 2012, lot 15.

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