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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;wood (later base)

Height: 145mm (170mm including the base)

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

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy, especially in the Virgin's cloak.

Object Condition
Some repairs to the drapery.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1998, lot 3. Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2000, lot 4.

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