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Head (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

Private collection, Paris (in 2012)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 225 mm

Head of lady with horned headdress (possibly Beatrice, Countess of Arundel); necklace.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Part of the veil broke and was glued back into place.

Comments
This head appears to be modeled on the tomb effigy of Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, at Arundel (see C. A. Stothard, 'Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel and his Countess, Beatrice, from their monument in The Church at Arundel', in The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain (London, 1814)).

Provenance
Private collection, Paris (in 2012)(bought from Bonhams, London).

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