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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (later crown)

Height: 195mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; blessing gesture.

London 1923: French, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Slightly curved.

Provenance
Lord Carmichael collection (in 1923). Collection of Mrs Emily Hesslein, New York. Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 1962, lot 123.

Bibliography
Apollo (May 1926).
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 96, pl. XXX.

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