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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Metal (shield);enamel (shield);ivory

Height: 201mm

Standing Virgin and Child; bare-chested Christ; Christ seated on right arm.
Enamelled unidentified coat of arms on the front of the base (on red ground).

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1370-1380.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: Virgin's left forearm and Christ's right hand.

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964). Blumka Gallery and Julius Böhler (Collecting Treasures of the Past. The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-11 February 2000, no. 17).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.35, pp. 17-18.


Image

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