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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Fondation Gandur pour l'Art (Switzerland)

FGA-AD-BA-97

Ivory

Height: 120 mm
Width: 60mm

Onlookers including a soldier in armour; Stephaton holding a bucket; hanging purse; sword (fragment of a Crucifixion scene).

Institution's opinion 2015 (Brigitte Roux): 2nd half of the 15th century

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (along the hems, beards, belt, etc.); green (ground).

Reverse
Curved and smooth. Ink inscription: '7482' or '1482' or 7462' or 1462'.

Object Condition
Two small restorations.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 27 November 2009, lot 32. Sale, Kohn, Paris, 15 September 2012, lot 23: acquired at this sale by the Gandur Foundation.

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