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Hair parter (fragment; handle; gravoir) (Back)

Hair parter (fragment; handle; gravoir) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire

F 147

Ivory

Height: 99-100mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm.

Koechlin Number: 1144

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: face of the Virgin.

Provenance
Gift of Serex, Geneva, 27 July 1880.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 417; II, no. 1144.

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