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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 240mm
Width: 83mm
Depth: 50mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin trampling a monster under her left foot; belt; bench.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head and right arm of Christ; Virgin's right forearm and possibly also left forearm (replaced) and crown.
Hole on the front of the Virgin's head and at the back, in the veil.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Léonce Rosenberg (b. 1877, d. 1947): his sale, Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1924, lot 88. Lapina collection: sold, Drouot, Paris, 27 May 1937, lot 60. Private collection, London (bought, Blumka, New York, 21 January 2002). Christie's, London, 7 July 2011, lot 565.

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