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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Virgin seated frontally; Christ seated frontally; Christ making a blessing gesture; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Virgin holding a flower (?) in her right hand. Border with foliated scrolls.

Koechlin Number: 0001

Koechlin 1924: France, late 12th century or early 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris (by 1900). Sibley collection, Rochester (United States)(in 1924).

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 56.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 47; II, no. 1; III, pl. I.

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