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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 62mm
Width: 30mm

Saint Catherine of Alexandria; emperor Maxentius; broken wheel; sword; crown.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Hole at the top of the head. Crack across the top of the head.
Missing: part of the saint's hair at the back.

Provenance
M. Germeau collection. Syd Levethan collection. Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1995, lot 29. Private collection, London: bought from Sam Fogg, London, 26 September 2007.

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 312.

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