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Statuette (Front)
Statuette (Front)
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Ivory;metal (later base)

Height: 147mm

Standing Virgin and Child; tender gesture of Christ touching with his left hand the Virgin's chin; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.


Koechlin Number: 0074

Koechlin 1924: French, end of the 13th century.(?)
Detroit 1997: French, late 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: crown. Numerous cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Benoît Oppenheim, Berlin (at least 1907-1924).

Bibliography
Originalbildwerke in Holz, Stein, Elfenbein usw. aus der Sammlung Benoit Oppenheim, Berlin (Leipzig, 1907), no. 72, pl. XXXV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 101; II, no. 74; III, pl. XXVI (in Oppenheim collection).
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 307, fig. 93a.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


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