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Saint-Omer, Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin

Inv. 6390

Bone

Height: 98mm
Width: 18mm
Depth: 7mm
Weight: 10g

Female figure wearing a crown or a pierced chaplet playing a musical instrument (string instrument).

Museum's opinion 2013: Northern France, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: lower right part of the piece; right side of the figure's head.
Hollow.

Provenance
Found in Saint-Omer when the former city walls were dismantled in 1893. Bequest of Herbécourt or gift of Sauvageur in 1897.

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