Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front, detail)

Statuette (Front, detail)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;wood and gilt bronze (later base)

Height: 234mm
Width: 75mm
Depth: 50mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ in long robe; Christ touching the back of the Virgin's veil.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: gold (along the hems; hair; patterns on Christ's robe).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: forearm of the Virgin and hand holding a fruit (replaced).
The right foot of the Virgin and the area around it seem to have broken off and to have been glued back into place.

Provenance
Collection of Gontaut-Biron and his descendants; Christie's, Paris, 17 November 2010, lot 156.

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