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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

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Ivory;wooden base (later)

Height: 235mm or 285mm

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

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ and Virgin's right forearm and hand holding an apple (all replaced), left forearm of Christ, base partly broken.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 276. Major Astor collection, at Hever Castle (Kent): sold, Sotheby's, London, Hever Castle sale, 6 May 1983, lot 236.

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