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Relief (appliqué) or statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;gilt copper (later gabled tabernacle and crown)

Height: 267mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; bare-chested Christ; Virgin holding an object in her left hand (possibly a sceptre or stem of flowers); Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: part of the object held in the right hand of the Virgin; brooch (trace).

Provenance
Private collection, New York. Parke-Bernet Gallery New York, 17 November 1955, lot 81.

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