Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;silver (later crown)

Height: 280mm

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

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: pattern along the hem of the Virgin's robe.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin; left hand of Christ; two blessing fingers of Christ; head of Christ (replaced).
Left foot of Christ chipped.

Provenance
Carlo Micheli collection (d. 1895?), Paris. Collection of Félix Doistau (b. 1846, d. 1936), Paris. Christie's, London, 11 November 1990, lot 8.

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