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Statuette (Front)
Statuette (Front)
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Front

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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Silver (later crown);ivory

Height: 282mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of a gilding or polychromy: decorative pattern along the hem of the Virgin's robe.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Brown staining.
Missing: Virgin's right forearm; left hand of Christ.
Chipped around the base.

Provenance
Carlo Micheli collection (d. 1895?), Paris. Collection of Félix Doistau (b. 1846, d. 1936), Paris. Seligmann, art dealer, Paris. Collection of Charles Michel (d. ca. 1948) and his descent. Christie's, London, 11 November 1990, lot 8. Christie's, 13 November 2003, lot 241. Blumka Gallery, New York (in 2014).


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