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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 150mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Child pulling the front of the Virgin's veil; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand.

Sprinz 1925: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ's left hand.

Provenance
Collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen (no. 5183)(in 1925). Schnitzler collection, Cologne.

Bibliography
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), no. 11, fig. 5.

Image

Out of copyright. From H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925).

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