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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

SK 160 (lost)

Ivory

Height: 100mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Christ seated frontally; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; crown; bench.

Schweitzer 1910: Lower Rhenish, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: throne, neck, hair, crown of the Virgin, along the hems.

Reverse
Carved in the round. Three rosettes decorating the back of the bench.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin; crown partly broken.

Provenance
Probably from Wassenberg (district of Heinsberg); collection of the headmaster Hermann Joseph M. H. Steiger (b. 1847, d. 1905), Düsseldorf-Derendorf; by bequest to the Suermondt-Museum in 1905.

Bibliography
H. Schweitzer, 'Jahresbericht des städtischen Suermondt-Museums für das Jahr 1905/06', in Aachener Kunstblätter I (Aachen, 1906), p. 20, fig. 18 on p. 27.
H. Schweitzer, Die Skulpturen-Sammlung im Städtischen Suermondt-Museum zu Aachen (Aachen, 1910), I (text), p. 83; II/III (plates), pl. 64.


Image

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