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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Front, back and side

Subject
Religious. Secular.

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Brie-Comte-Robert, Centre d'Interprétation du Patrimoine

Inv. 1406-003

Ivory (?)

Height: 64mm
Width: 24mm
Depth: 6mm

Unidentified female (?) figure raising both hands (possibly Virgin from a Crucifixion scene).

Béon 2006: France (Paris), 1st third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: head, neck and lower part of the figure.

Comments
A.-C. Béon suggests it may have be a fragment of a crozier.

Provenance
Found at the castle of Brie-Comte-Robert in 2001, from an embankment formed between the late 16th century and the early 17th century, and in which the finds dated from the 13th to the 17th century.

Bibliography
A.-C. Béon, 'Étude d'une statuette gothique trouvée au château de Brie-Comte-Robert', in P. H. A. C. I. P. (Publications historiques et archéologiques du Centre d'interprétation du patrimoine de Brie-Comte-Robert) no. 1 (2006), pp. 49-56.


Image

© Piechaczyk Michel / AVC.

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