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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 145 mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in a long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit with both hands.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: lower hem and part of head of Christ-Child, repaired with wax.
Long vertical crack to front and back.

Provenance
Collection of Leo Kirch, Cologne (by 1910). Collection Brügelmann, Cologne. Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 16 May 2015, lot 1550.

Bibliography
E. Lüthgen, 'Die Sammlung Leo Kirch in Cöln', in Cicerone 10 (1918), p. 191ff., fig. 1.

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