Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Ivory

Height: 260 mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; tender gesture of Christ touching with his right hand the Virgin's chin; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.

Swarzenski 1929: modern, copy of a statuette in the Orléans museum.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Passavant-Gontard collection, Frankfurt, acquired in 1876: sale, Berlin, 5 December 1929.

Bibliography
G. Swarzenski, Sammlung R. von Passavant-Gontard (Frankfurt, 1929), no. 78.

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