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Statuette (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 120 mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in a long robe; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her left hand; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; crown; bench.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ.
Brown stain on the Virgin’s face. Large hole at the back of the bench.

Provenance
On the art market in Belgium, June 2012. Sale, Louviers, 1 December 2013, lot 17.

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