Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Side)

Statuette (Side)

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Subject
Religious.

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Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum

Inv. 925.13.28

Ivory

Height: 216mm
Width: 114mm

Visitation or Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women.

Museum's opinion 2012: French, 19th century carving in a 16th-century style.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (yellow).

Reverse
Pulp cavity visible.

Object Condition
Two large holes in the lower part of the piece, on either side of the pulp cavity (visible from the back).
Missing: part of the bottom left corner, when viewed from the back.
Some scoring and crosshatching in the lower part of the piece, at the back.

Provenance
Bought from the art dealer Thomas Sutton (2 Albemarle st, London) in 1925.

Image

Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum, © ROM.

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