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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (later crown and base)

Height: 580mm (probably including the base)
Width: 140mm (max)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.


Koechlin Number: 0105

Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Child (later replacement); crown of the Virgin (later replacement).

Provenance
Frédéric Spitzer collection, Paris: sold, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 134. Heugel collection (in 1924).

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 99 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 105; III, pl. XXXII.


Image

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