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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 165mm

Unidentified standing tonsured saint or apostle holding a book.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Head reattached.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 10 December 2004, lot 13. Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2009, lot 19. Blumka Gallery, in 2012 ('Collecting Treasures of the Past VII', exhibition catalogue, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-10 February 2012, New York, no. 16).

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