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Statuette (Front)

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Ivory;metal (later crown and base)

Height: 145mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; blessing gesture; bench.

Koechlin Number: 0652

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ (replaced).
Later double base, including one in metal and later crown.

Provenance
Bonaffé collection (no. 253 in the catalogue); collection of Félix Doistau (b. 1846, d. 1936), Paris (before 1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I. p. 240; II, no. 652.

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