Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 185 mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; crown; belt.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red on the lining of the Virgin's cloak.

Object Condition
Missing: face of Christ. Ivory in torso of Virgin and body of Child loose, back reinforced with glued cloth support.

Provenance
Adams collection: Bonhams (London, Knightsbridge), The Adams Collection. Part III, 22 May 1996, lot 91.

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