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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;gilt copper (later crown and base)

Height: 590mm (probably including the base)
Width: 130mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ holding a bird in his left hand; Christ touching the back of the Virgin's veil.

Molinier 1890: France, end of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815, d. 1890), Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 135.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 100 (E. Molinier).

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