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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Madrid, Instituto Valencia de Don Juan

Inv. I. 4846

Sperm whale ivory

Height: 87mm
Width: 41mm
Depth: 32mm

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

Mingorance 2013: Spain (Castille-León), 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ; a few fingers on Christ's right hand.
The right hand of Christ seems to be broken around the wrist.
Crown and bench chipped.

Comments
Bottom with conical cavity which seems to have been partly hollowed out (corresponding to the aspect of a sperm whale tooth).

Provenance
Bought from Don Teófilo Torres Martín in 1927 and recorded in the Libro de Adquisiciones del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, II, no. 91.

Bibliography
L. Mingorance Serrano, Los Marfiles Góticos del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, unpublished MA dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 2013, no. 3.


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© Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid - 2013.

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