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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 210mm

Seated Virgin with Child; Christ seated on left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Virgin trampling a dragon (basilisk) under her left foot; blessing gesture; crown; bench.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ's head, left arm and left part of his bust, blessing fingers on his right hand. Crown and Christ's robe chipped. Cracks. Two large holes.
Damage possibly caused by extended burial.

Provenance
Blumka Gallery, in 2012 ('Collecting Treasures of the Past VII', exhibition catalogue, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-10 February 2012, New York, no. 13).


Image

© Blumka Gallery, New York- Julius Boehler, Starnberg, 2012.

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