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Statuette (Side)
Statuette (Side)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 170mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee; Christ playing with the cord of the Virgin's cloak; crown.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: crown and object in the Virgin's left hand partly broken.Chipped at the back.

Provenance
Collection of Georg Schuster, Munich: his sale, Böhler, Munich, 17 March 1938, lot 273, pl. 5 (see digitised sale catalogue: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/boehler1938_03_17/0092). Lempertz collection, Cologne: Cologne, 5 November 1956, lot 940.

Bibliography
H. Wilm, Die Sammlung Georg Schuster (Munich, 1937), no. 10, pl. 3.


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