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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. B 273

Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 60mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ in long robe; Christ touching the back of the Virgin's veil; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; crown; bench.

Museum's opinion 2013: Germany (Rhineland ?), 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
The statuette has broken in two pieces which have been glued back together (more visible at the back).

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.

Bibliography
Ausstellung von Meisterwerken der Renaissance aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue, Munich, 1901, no. 600.
Kunsthistorische Ausstellung Düsseldorf, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1902, no. 2578.


Image

Foto: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/Marion Mennicken.

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