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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. Pl.O. 367

Ivory

Height: 95mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; blessing gesture; crown.

Josephi 1910: France, c. 1400.
Museum's opinion 2013: Cologne (?), around 1860.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: object or flowers originally held by the Virgin. Crown chipped.

Provenance
Acquired in 1867 in Cologne

Bibliography
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 643.
Fälschung und Forschung, exhibition catalogue, Essen, Museum Folkwang and Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesit, October 1976-March 1977, no. 60 (with ill.)


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