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Statuette (fragment of a group) (Front)

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Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Galleria di Palazzo Cini a San Vio (on extended loan from the Cini heirs)

VC 1163 a

Ivory

Height: 190mm
Width: 50mm
Depth: 20mm (without base)

Standing saint John the Evangelist (fragment of a Crucifixion scene).

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding along the hems.

Reverse
The back is carved with symmetrical drapery but very flat.

Object Condition
Missing: chipped near the left foot of the figure at the front.

Provenance
Collection of Vittorio Cini (b. 1885, d. 1977), Venice: on extended loan to the Galleria di Palazzo Cini a San Vio since 1989, courtesy of Yilda Cini Guglielmi di Vulci, second daughter of Vittorio Cini.

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