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Statuette (Front)

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Front

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 245mm
Width: 110mm
Depth: 104mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee.
Foliated decoration on the bench.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ Child (except for one foot); right and left forearm of the Virgin.
Very dry.

Provenance
Private collection, Germany (until 1956). Julius Böhler, Munich in 1927. Private collection, London (bought, Christie's, London, 10 November 2005, lot 151).

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