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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (crown)

Height: 435mm (excluding base)
Width: 130mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; belt; brooch; crown.
Band of quatrefoils.

Molinier 1890: French, end of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 136.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 101 (E. Molinier).

Image

Out of copyright. From Catalogue des objets d'art de haute curiosité: Antiques du moyen âge et de la Renaissance, composant l'importante et précieuse Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1893).

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