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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 210mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; Christ seated on right arm; Virgin possibly holding a sceptre in her left hand (broken); crown.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: eyes.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: object in the Virgin's left hand (possibly a sceptre or a stem of flowers, partly broken).

Comments
Within a later stained wooden niche.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 3 March 1990, lot 95.

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