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Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Inv. 3068

Ivory;silver;rock crystal;coloured glass

Height: 190mm
Width: 162mm
Depth: 100mm (in total)

Saint Helena.
Inscription on the silver collar: SA ELENA.

Lisbon 1945: French, 14th century.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, 14th century, the head seems earlier than the metalwork.
Camón Aznar 1951: Paris, probably 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: French (?), 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

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Carved in the round

Provenance
Lázaro collection, New York (by 1945).

Bibliography
Colecção Lázaro de Nova Iorque, exhibition catalogue, Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 1945, no. 82, pl. XIII.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).

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