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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 135 mm
Width: 75mm

Adoration of the Magi.

Molinier 1890: Spanish, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round. Faint inscription: 'IXI'.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 152. Christie's, New York, 14 January 1992, lot 87.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 117 (E. Molinier).

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