Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 310 mm

Standing Virgin and Child; bare-chested Christ; Christ on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head, Virgin's right hand, Christ's right hand.
Chipped at the front where the left foot was.

Provenance
Koller, Zurich, 15 September 1994, lot 6. Rau collection; lent to the Schnütgen Museum 2009-2012; Lempertz, Cologne, 16 November 2013, lot 1359.

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