Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 112 mm
Width: 73 mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); Christ half-kneeling in the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; bench.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: crown.
The crown probably was in metal: traces of attachment on the head.
Two holes on the base.

Provenance
Collection of Jacques and Galila Hollander: their sale, Christie’s, Paris, 16 October 2013, lot 24.

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