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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Angers, Musée-château de Villevêque

2003.1.403

Ivory

Height: 203mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 40mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her left hand; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand.

Bern 1939: French, 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: French, c. 1330.
Angers 2011: French (Paris), 2nd half of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Emil Delmár (b. 1876, d. 1959), Budapest (until 1938), on loan to the Bern Kunstmuseum from 1938, Delmár collection moved to New York (from 1947); sold, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1956, lot 100. Collection of Ernest and Marthe Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne; their sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1979, lot 25. Collection of Daniel Duclaux (bought from Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris): bequest of his widow to the Museum in 2002.

Bibliography
Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, exhibition catalogue, Bern, Kunstmuseum, 1939, no. 3.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, 1964, no. 699.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.36.
P. Bloch et al., 'Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 31 (1965), p. 17, no. 36.
Trésors de la collection Daniel Duclaux (Angers, 2011), no. 32.


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