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Panel (probably writing tablet), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)

Panel (probably writing tablet), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tablette à écrire) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 98mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Christ seated on the Virgin's left arm; two angels holding candlesticks.
Pinnacles.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: haloes, cloaks, trefoils in the spandrels.

Object Condition
Three central holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
'Le Goût Steinitz' sale, Christie's, London, 6 December 2007, lot 329.


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