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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 159mm

Standing saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding or polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 November 2007, lot 37. Christie's, London, 5 November 2009, lot 205. On the art market in Belgium, September 2014.

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