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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 180mm
Width: 92mm

Seated Virgin and Child; canopy; two angels holding the curtains; naked Christ; Christ seated on right arm.

Koechlin Number: 0984

London 1923: Central France or Burgundy, 15th century
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Henry Oppenheimer, London (at least from 1923): his sale, Christie's, London, 15 July 1936, lot 178.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 158, pl. XLI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 353; II, no. 984.

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