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Subject
Secular. Mythological.

Repository Institution
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Venice, Museo Correr

Cl. XVII n. 6

Ivory

Height: 80mm (without pedestal)

Nude female figure (possibly Venus) with a monkey on a lead.

Lazari 1859: 15th century.
Mariacher 1967 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, beginning of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the lead.

Bibliography
V. Lazari, Notizia delle opere d'arte e d'antichità della Raccolta Correr di Venezia (Venice, 1859), no. 732.
G. Mariacher, 'Gli avori del Museo Correr di Venezia', in Rassegna dell'Istruzione artistica', II-4 (1967), pp. 33-48 (p. 38, and 48, n. 10).

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