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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Private collection, London (in 2015)

S/n

Ivory;wood (base with hybrids)

Height: 184mm (ivory only)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; tender gesture of Christ touching with his right hand the Virgin's chin; Virgin holding Christ's foot in her right hand; crown.

Radiocarbon dating prepared by Uppsala University, Angstromlaboratoriet produced a 95.4% probability of a date for the ivory within the range 1210 and 1290, and a 68.2% probability of a date for the ivory within the range 1225 and 1280.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left leg of Christ (repaired).

Provenance
Rodolphe Kann collection: his sale, 1907, lot 16 (J. Mannheim, Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann collection. Objets d'art (Paris, 1907), I, no. 16, p. 11). Acquired by the then owner's grandmother from Beata Brummer, wife of art dealer Joseph Brummer (b. 1883, d. 1947); sale, Stockholm, 13 June 2012, lot 758; private collection, London.

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