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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

KK 842

Ivory

Height: 123mm
Width: 27mm
Depth: 24mm

Standing Virgin in prayer.

Museum's opinion 2012: 19th century, in the manner of French works of c. 1350-60.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Pierced with a hole in the underside.
Missing: hands (later replacement).

Provenance
Collection of Franz Wilhelm Aloys Weidenhaupt (b. 1815, d. 1890), Aachen (designated as 'Stiftsvikar, Rektor der Domschule'); collection of Dr. Peter Wings, Aachen; his bequest to the Museum in 1893.

Bibliography
H. Schweitzer, Die Skulpturen-Sammlung im Städtischen Suermondt-Museum zu Aachen (Aachen, 1910), I (text), p. 83, II/III, pl. 63.


Image

© Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen. Photography: Anne Gold.

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