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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 153mm

Seated Virgin in Child; Christ in long robe; standing Christ on the Virgin's left knee; Christ and the Virgin holding a book.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1320-1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: blue (cloak), red (robes).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: head and right forearm of Christ.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg, Paris. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.42, p. 18.


Image

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