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Head (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Gilt copper;coloured glass (?);ivory

Height: 240 mm

Head of veiled lady (Virgin?).

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy: pupils, veil, and lips.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Herrmann Sax, Vienna: Sax sale, Vienna, Miethke, 4 December 1893, lot 112, with ill.

Image

Out of copyright. From Katalog der Kunstsammlung des verstorbenen heren Herrmann Sax in Wien. Miethke, Vienna, 1893.

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