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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 325mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.


Koechlin Number: 0702

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th or early 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand and left arm of Christ; right hand of the Virgin (replaced).

Provenance
Heugel collection, Paris. Froger collection, Tours. Cyril Humphris collection, New York: sold, Sotheby's, New York, 10-11 January 1995, lot 4.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective, exhibition catalogue, Tours, 1890, pl. XXXVII, no. 2.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 248; II, no. 702; III, pl. CXIII.


Image

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