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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 137mm
Width: 80mm

Apostles holding books.

Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries group

Object Condition
Missing: nose of the left hand side apostle.

Provenance
Minheim collection in Aachen. Lempertz collection, Cologne: Lempertz sale, Cologne, 5 November 1956, lot 415.

Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (for comparison).

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