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Statuette (Front)
Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 255 mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; bench.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right and left hand of Christ; right forearm of the Virgin. The Virgin's veil is chipped. The top of the Virgin's head shows traces of recutting, possibly to allow for a metal crown to be attached.

Provenance
Gendebien collection, Fléron castle (Belgium). Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2002, lot 10. Brimo de Laroussilhe collection (in 2008; M.-A. Carlier, Art Médiéval: Exposition à l'occasion du centenaire de Brimo de Laroussilhe (Paris, 2008), no. 27).


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