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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 45mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ walking in the Virgin's lap; Child pulling the back of the Virgin's veil; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; belt.

Sprinz 1925: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: along the hems; belt; hair.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen (no. 5188)(in 1925).

Bibliography
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), no. 9, fig. 3.

Image

Out of copyright. From H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925).

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