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Statuette (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 350mm
Width: 110mm
Depth: 71mm

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

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round, but quite flat at the back.

Object Condition
Hole at the back of the Virgin's head.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 4 August 2010, lot 188; Private collection, London (bought, Sam Fogg, London, 26 August 2010).

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